Roxanich Winery is located in the mountains of Croatia's Istrian Peninsula in the ancient Venetian village of Motovun. The winery was founded by entrepreneur, turned winemaker Mladen Rožanić (Roe-zhan-ich) in the early 2000s. Mladen and his team farm 26 hectares of land nearby to the winery, about 20 minutes from the Adriatic Coast, following organic and biodynamic principles. The terroir is known as "Red Istria"; the soil is a thick layer of iron-rich red clay at the surface and mineral-rich limestone, and the climate Mediterranean. Mladen and his 6 daughters (Lara, Petra, Sara, Mara, Zara, Tara) run the family winery, restaurant, and boutique hotel. Mladen is the primary winemaker and is supported by his oldest daughter Lara, who will eventually takeover from her father. Sara studied hospitality and runs the hotel. Mara is a chef and works in their family restaurant, in addition to supporting Sara with running the hotel. And Petra is a painter and artist who has designed the wine labels. And the two youngest daughters Zara and Tara are growing up in the family business. At the time when Mladen started the winery, Croatia was transitioning from socialist state-owned grape growing and wine production to a private system that allowed small scale family wineries, which had once dominated the region, to re-enter the landscape. Mladen's vision is to showcase a pure expression of Istrian terroir, working with local and regional varieties and focusing on a low-intervention approach in the cellar through which nothing is taken away or added to the wine except small amounts of sulphur.