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Wine Selection of the Mursa Wine Brand
— The synergy of respect for the tradition of past generations, knowledge, natural processing of grapes and the preservation of natural harmony of taste and aroma.
MURSA

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Štajerska Region of Slovenia
THE HOME OF EXCELLENT SLOVENIAN WINES
The wine-growing district of the Štajerska Region is the largest in Slovenia, with the Ljutomer-Ormož Hills in Prlekija being its north-eastern part. This is the land of hundreds of terraced hills, wind-rattles (klopotec), thermal springs and spas, and rich cuisine, as well as cultural, natural and ethnological heritage. It represents the centre of the Slovenian wine-growing tradition dating back to the 4th century bc.
During the Crusades, knights named the place after their homeland – Jerusalem – due to excellent wines and hospitality of the locals. The wishing bell in the Our Lady of Sorrows church reminds us of them.
The Ljutomer-Ormož Hills captivate with their idyllic landscape. You rarely see the beauty and friendliness of nature so well combined with the kindness and hospitality of people as in the Ljutomer-Ormož district. This vibrant land has given its character to the local people.
What is the special feature of wines of this small wine-growing area, from which in measured quantities the bottles roamed to European courts in the past centuries?
The most favourable climatic conditions with more than 200 days of sunshine a year, cold nights and soil rich in minerals of the once Pannonian Sea, which curved around the current wine-growing hills as islands and deposited fertile, mineral-rich layer of soil – a mixture of sand and clay perfect for viticulture.
All the vineyards are on steep slopes, covered with grass, which prevents soil erosion and facilitates vine cultivation.
There are many grape varieties growing on this soil and thriving in the favourable climate. Due to the favourable warm and dry Pannonian climate, in addition to excellent harmonious dry and semi-dry wines and varieties, the land also offers premium semi-sweet and sweet wines of special qualities, such as late harvest, selection, grape selection, ice wine and dry grape selection (different levels of natural sugar content).
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Rebirth of a renowned wine family
THE MARO WINE CELLAR IS LOCATED IN SLOVENIA, IN THE WINE-GROWING DISTRICT OF THE ŠTAJERSKA REGION, MORE PRECISELY IN THE LJUTOMER-ORMOŽ HILLS, FAMOUS FOR THEIR THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD TRADITION OF WINE-MAKING AND IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR PRODUCING PREMIUM WINES.
Vineyards cover the most beautiful positions of the Ljutomer-Ormož Hills: Strezetina and Nunska graba, near the famous Jeruzalem, and are considered to be in the top
3% of the best vineyard locations in the world. Hand-picked grapes provide the highest quality basis for producing excellent wines.
Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Yellow Muscat, and a local variety called Furmint grow in these marvellous and fertile vineyards.
The MARO Wine Cellar represents the tradition of renowned winemaking family from the 17th century, Mursa.
Descendant of the family, MAša Samec continues the tradition of winemaking while respecting the natural features of excellent vineyard positions, preserving original characteristics of the grape varieties and taking good care of the wine through the process of maturation in the wine cellar.
Mursa is the brand of the MARO Wine Cellar, and its selection offers high quality and premium wines The wines are extremely aromatic, which is reflected in the luxury of fruit, floral and plant aromas in individual wines. In terms of taste, the wines are vibrant due to refreshing acids, enriched with an appropriate alcoholic strength, full-bodied and rich in extracts, harmonious and pleasantly drinkable.

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The luxury of fruit, floral and plant aromas.
Mursa is the brand of the MARO Wine Cellar, and its selection offers high quality and premium wines The wines are extremely aromatic, which is reflected in the luxury of fruit, floral and plant aromas in individual wines. In terms of taste, the wines are vibrant due to refreshing acids, enriched with an appropriate alcoholic strength, full-bodied and rich in extracts, harmonious and pleasantly drinkable.

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the tradition of our ancestors.
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The Rich Tradition of the Mursa Wine-Making Family
THE FIRST WRITTEN RECORDS OF THE MURSA FAMILY DATE BACK TO 1609. THEIR WINE-GROWING AND WINE-MAKING OPERATIONS ARE DOCUMENTED IN THE ‘GORNIŠKI REGISTER KRIŽNIŠKE KOMENDE VELIKA NEDELJA’ REGISTER FROM 1613.
The Mursa family tree reflects a creative image of individuals through the centuries who in one way or another contributed to the development of society, its economic, political and cultural life.
A notable figure is Josip Mursa who left his mark as an excellent businessman in the 19th century. His role model was his widowed mother Marija, a very enterprising and determined woman. She managed the estate and vineyards and exhibited her wines at the world wine exhibition in Vienna, Austria in 1873.
In 1889, Josip Mursa established the first factory of cement products and mosaic tiles in the then Yugoslavia, and protected his innovation of
a waterproof concrete roofing tile at the patent office in Vienna, Austria. At the same time, he successfully managed his 150 ha large estate where he was a pillar of society through his innovative spirit. Thirty-five hectares of land were vineyards at selected positions and numerous wine cellars with innovative wine-making technology. Josip Mursa bottled his wine and sparkling wine varieties in the first half of the 20th century and exported them to Hungary and Austria. His wines were awarded in exhibitions and quality assessment events.
Maša Samec has taken over the heritage of her grandfather, the architect Dušan Samec, a grandson of Josip Mursa, with great respect and responsibility.
The synergy of respect for the tradition of past generations, knowledge, natural processing of grapes and the preservation of natural harmony of taste and aroma is presented in the wine brand — Mursa.


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Mosaic tile of the production program of the Josip Mursa factory from the year 1895.
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In honour of the 150th anniversary of the birth of josip mursa, a giant of prlekija and slovenia – landowner, factory owner, businessman, innovator, technician, winemaker and viticulturist, horse breeder and politician – a book by author Rado Podgorelec was published, illuminating in detail the time and place of Mursa’s activity, his work and his life.
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Sparkling Wine Crystal
SPECIAL EDITION
DIPL. ARCH. DUŠAN SAMEC
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Crystal sparkling wine was dedicated to teh 100th anniversary of architect, designer and researcher Samec Dušan (1925-2010).
As the grandson of Josip Mursa and grandfather of the owner of the MARO Wine Cellar – Maša Samec, he ensured the denationalisation of the Mursa estate.
During his professional career, he gained experience in master classes by Jože Plečnik and seminars by Edo Ravnikar and Edo Mihevc, becoming a collaborator with Stanko Bloudek. He graduated with the realisation of the ‘Yugo Pavilion’ in Izmir, Turkey. The research on Macedonian and Bosnian houses under the leadership of Prof. Dušan Grabrijan was successfully presented in the book Makedonska hiša (Macedonian house). In Sarajevo, he worked closely with academic and architect Juraj Neidhardt, an outstanding urban planner, collaborator and assistant of the famous Le Corbusier in Paris.
Although he always followed his own path, his teachers nevertheless influenced his architectural views. Since 1963, he worked as an independent architect, urban planner, designer and researcher. He realised many projects that were always unique, progressive, and functional. His expertise as a designer went beyond aesthetics and always followed innovative usability and global competitive principles. In the industrial sector, his solutions designed in the Tigris production programme allowed Unior from Zreče to penetrate markets of 72 countries around the world. His granite opus of monuments is a kind of solid architectural open-air museum in Slovenia, in which he developed his own artistic language between the cross and the fist.
He was an architect with a great architectural legacy.
For Dušan Samec, crystals – which he passionately collected and on which he built his challenging theses related to the natural law of harmony – have always been a hobby and a serious challenge at the same time. He summarised his findings in the research project Modul in proporc v arhitekturi (Module and Proportion in Architecture).
Crystal represents purity, strength, and is geometrically perfect, unforgettable. Also the taste of Crystal sparkling wine, the first and also the anniversary sperkling wine of the MARO Wine Cellar, remained with you forever, unforgettable.

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Photographs
PETER MARINŠEK – PHOTOGRAPHER

He was born in 1964 in Celje. In 1971, he moved from Šempeter v Savinjski dolini to Velenje with his father Marjan, mother Lučka and brother Marko. Later, they were joined by Jernej, the youngest son in the family.
He attended primary school and gymnasium in Velenje, and graduated from art pedagogy under professor Bojan Golija and professor Ludvik Pandur. During his studies and practical work in the field of art, he realised that photography would be his profession.
He acquired the status of independent artist – photographer in 1992. During his 30-year professional career, he became a renowned and sought-after photographer, who is often hired by the most important names in the Slovenian economy, cultural and creative industries. He founded the ma—ma studio in Velenje, where he creates and researches while photographing figures/portraits, food, sports, vistas and landscapes; recently, he has been focusing more on studio/product photography.
He participated in group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad, where he received several awards. In Slovenia, he received the Puhar Award, amongst others. He has already held solo exhibitions in the Ivan Napotnik Gallery in Velenje, the gallery in Šoštanj, the Art Salon in Celje, the Faculty of Education in Maribor and Ljubljana. His photographs are published in many Slovenian publications: books, magazines, catalogues, as well as on websites.
He and his family now live in Letuš and he has a studio in Velenje.
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Visual identity design
MARKO MARINŠEK – DESIGNER

Marko Marinšek was born on 14 October 1968 in Celje to father Marjan, a culture professional from Velenje, and mother Lučka, an expert on Slovenian language and literature.
He works as an art director in the visual communication studio ma—ma. He graduated from the Faculty of Design, with a major in visual communication design on the topic of renewing the visual identity of the European Faculty of Law. He was also a tutor for younger foreign students. In recent years, he designed the books ’Zlata Radgonska resnica’, published on the 160th anniversary of Radgona sparkling wine, and ’Refošk – Rex Fuscus’ by Drago Medved, Mursa: unforgettable progressive Slovenian by Rado Podgorelec, the monograph ’Velenje – bogastvo pogledov’, the monograph ’Hočem postati pevka’ by the concert singer Marija Bitenc Samec, and ’Stebri slovenskega gospodarstva’. For the Municipality of Velenje, he created a visual identity of ‘Velenje, a city with a heart’, and for the Municipality of Šoštanj, a visual identity for the 110th anniversary of the city of Šoštanj.
Galeriji Velenje in Muzeju Velenje pomaga z oblikovalskimi rešitvami ob postavitvi pomembnejših razstav. V Skupini Gorenje je zadnja leta prevzemal pomembno vlogo pri korporativni vizualni podobi skupine. Zdaj išče vizualne rešitve za skupino Hisense Europe. Za BIO sadne sokove je oblikoval inovativno embalažo ’TRIANGOLOTTO’ z namenom, da preseneti in zadovolji vedno bolj zahtevnega potrošnika.
Je avtor mnogih celostnih vizualnih podob uspešnih slovenskih podjetij in blagovnih znamk. Je tudi avtor grafične podobe dveh zadnjih čelad slovenskih smučarskih skakalcev.
V letu 2015 je v muzeju SEM razstavljal svoje rešitve za prenovo vizualne identitete Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. V Narodni galeriji na 7. Brumnovem bienalu vidnih sporočil med finalisti razstavljal dela, ki jih je oblikoval za Gorenje Group, oktobra 2015 na razstavi ’Vizualna umetnost 1975–2015’ v Galeriji Velenje svoje vizualne kreacije in istega leta koledar z lastnimi ilustracijami – ’Il mio calendario‘ v avli Mestne občine Velenje. Živi, ustvarja in črpa znanje ter ideje tam, kjer je rad. Nekje med Velenjem, Ljubljano, New Yorkom in Kalabrijo.
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Mursa wine descriptions
VALENTIN BUFOLIN – SOMMELIER,
ITALIAN WINE AMBASSADOR, DIRECTOR OF BUFOVIN

Valentin Bufolin was born on 27th of January 1982 into a family of caterers in Šempeter pri Gorici. He grew up in a family of vintners, and wine is his lifelong passion. He is interested in details, specifics, an in-depth look at the production of wine, an understanding of its production and, last but not least, the philosophy and culture of vintners and the wider area..He is a 1st level Sommelier (2007 – Society for the development of drinking culture, Sommelier Slovenia), trained wine taster (2009 – Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana), 1st and 2nd level Sommelier (2012 – AIS – Associazione Italiana Sommelier, Videm).
2nd level Sommelier (2013 – Society for the development of drinking culture, Sommelier Slovenia), 3rd level Sommelier (2015 – Society for the development of drinking culture, Sommelier Slovenia), and holds the Introductory Sommelier certificate, Court of Master Sommeliers (2019), WSET 3 (2021 – BelVin Wine School).
We worked as a marketing director at Lidl Slovenija d.o.o. (2016–2020), was sales and marketing director at Vipava 1894 d.o.o. (2020–2022), partner and director and Vino d.o.o. (2021–2022), and founded BufoVin, poslovno svetovanje, s.p. (2021–2022). He is a commercial coordinator and wine consultant in DRINX of the BARGROUP group.
He has been participating in various wine-evaluation commissions for many years, and organising various workshops at wine festivals. He actively participates in the training of new sommeliers. He is the vice-president of the Society for the development of drinking culture, Sommelier Slovenia, and the Best Sommelier of Slovenia.




























