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Vinařství FABIG
A Moravian winery built around a single conviction: that Sauvignon Blanc, grown organically and made for acidity, produces wines with decades of bottle life.
At A Glance
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| Country | Czech Republic |
| Region | Moravia |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Main grape | Sauvignon Blanc |
| Signature wine | SPECTRUM Sauvignon Blanc |
| Defining feature | Over 80% of production dedicated to one variety, farmed organically, made for long aging |
The Producer
Roman Fabig started his winery in Moravia in 2011 with a micro-batch bottling and a decision that has governed every vintage since: Sauvignon Blanc would be the work, and it would be done as well as possible rather than spread across many varieties. Today more than 80% of his annual production of 50,000 bottles is Sauvignon Blanc, all farmed organically. The flagship SPECTRUM is a blend of Sauvignon Blanc from his finest vineyard parcels, made to age.
The winery building makes the same argument as the wine range: basic geometric shapes, concrete, no decorative reference to tradition or family legacy. Fabig describes it as young and innovative rather than typically family-owned.
Place
Moravia, the eastern wine region of the Czech Republic, sits at a latitude where the growing season runs long and cool relative to the warmer wine zones further south and west. Summers bring enough warmth to ripen Sauvignon Blanc, but the harvest window extends into autumn, giving the grape time to develop aromatic complexity while holding its natural acidity. That combination of ripeness and acidity is what drives Fabig's focus on this variety in this place: Sauvignon Blanc thrives where the season closes slowly, and Moravia provides that rhythm.
Story
Roman Fabig went to Spain for his wine education, working internships there before returning to Moravia. What he brought back was a working principle: that the producers he had found most compelling were not doing everything. They were concentrating on mastery of one thing. He applied that directly. When he bottled his first micro-batch in 2011, the label was Sauvignon Blanc. The question he set himself was not which varieties Moravia could support, but how far a single variety could go when the whole enterprise was organised around it.
He built a winery designed to hold that argument in concrete form. Rather than adopting the visual codes of established Moravian estates, he commissioned a building in minimal geometric shapes using steel, PUR panels and concrete. Phase I was sized for 30,000 bottles annually. Current production stands at 50,000 bottles, and the building is planned for eventual expansion to 100,000.
Vineyards And Cellar
Fabig farms organically, without synthetic treatments. The decision is practical rather than promotional: he describes it as logical thinking oriented toward lasting quality rather than responding to current trends. The vineyards supply Sauvignon Blanc for all tiers of the range.
In the cellar, the focus is on preserving acidity and developing the capacity for long aging. The range runs from the broader Sauvignon Blanc bottlings to SPECTRUM, a cuvée blended from the finest parcels.
Wines
The FABIG range is organised around Sauvignon Blanc at every level, with SPECTRUM at the top. SPECTRUM is a multi-parcel blend drawing from the winery's best vineyard plots, bottled at 12.5% alcohol with 7.6 g/l acidity and 2.3 g/l residual sugar. That residual sugar figure places it firmly in dry wine territory; the acidity is high enough to carry the wine through extended bottle age. The other Sauvignon Blanc bottlings form the broader base of the range, giving access to the house style before SPECTRUM.
A small portion of production covers varieties other than Sauvignon Blanc.
In The Glass
The FABIG house style is calibrated for acidity and age. The wines are dry, with high natural acidity giving them a firm, linear feel in the mouth. SPECTRUM, with 7.6 g/l acidity and residual sugar of 2.3 g/l, is built for the long term: the acidity acts as a preservative, and the wine is designed to develop rather than to be consumed immediately. The broader Sauvignon Blanc bottlings share this clarity-first orientation, showing the grape's characteristic freshness with a finish that holds rather than fades.
A Bottle To Understand It
SPECTRUM is the bottle that shows what Fabig is doing with Moravian Sauvignon Blanc. It draws from his finest vineyard parcels, blended into a single cuvée bottled at 12.5% alcohol with 7.6 g/l acidity and 2.3 g/l residual sugar. The wine is dry and firm, with acidity high enough to make bottle aging not just possible but the intended use. It is the narrowest, most deliberate expression of the range, and it shows the house style at full resolution: organic farming, concentrated Sauvignon Blanc fruit, and the acid architecture that defines every bottle Fabig makes.
Anecdote
When Roman Fabig built his winery, he made a choice that runs against the grain of most Moravian estate architecture. Instead of referencing tradition through wood, stone, or the visual codes of family wineries in the region, he commissioned a building in minimal geometric forms: steel and PUR panel construction, concrete surfaces, basic shapes. The design brief was explicit in what it was not trying to be. The building does not strive to be traditional or typically family-owned. Phase I was completed with production capacity for 30,000 bottles annually. A winery whose exterior is as much a statement of intent as the wines inside it: not a heritage property with a modern range, but a new thing built to look exactly like what it is.
Final Word
Vinařství FABIG produces Moravian Sauvignon Blanc made for the cellar: organic farming, high acidity, low residual sugar, and a flagship SPECTRUM that draws from the best parcels. The whole enterprise runs on one variety and one question about how far it can go.
Sources
- https://www.fabig.cz/en/about-the-winery
- https://www.czech-wines.com/fabig
- https://www.archiweb.cz/en/b/vinarstvi-fabig-i-etapa
- https://www.fabig.cz/cs/sauvignon-blanc-spectrum-2021