Domačija Kabaj Morel

This is our favourite winery to ever visit. The wine-maker is French and he trained in the republic of Georgia, so he uses a lot of traditional methods, including longer maceration times for white wines and aging in amphora and barrels. Truly unique “natural” wines. His wife, Katja, is from Slovenia. She organises the dinners and room stays. So you feel like family when you dine and/or spend the night. The 5-course meal is really more like 7 courses with the snack, palette cleanser (which uses their pet nat), and pre-dessert. The food is elegant and innovative, and often using local ingredients. This meal would cost twice as much In Ljubljana. But here, you feel like a dinner guest in their house. Plus, you can of course do wine pairings. Rooms are comfy and some have a balcony overlooking the vineyards. We visit Kabaj every time we go to Slovenia. You should too.

This place has a soul. Amazing, cozy athmospere, beautiful wines, delicious food, great craftmentship and ultimate level of hospitality. Abolutely worth to stay, a truly authentic place in the "slovenian tuscany", Brda region. If you into culinary the dinner is recommended with wine pairing!

We visited on a Tuesday and were the first to be seated at 7pm when it opened. Atmosphere was welcoming, informative staff with beautiful surroundings. The menu is a tasting menu style but you can also just choose the dishes you wanted. Portions are quite small so you really do need all of them… the food is well presented and food generally tasted good, some dishes lacked inspiration for the price you are paying. The main issue was the time, we were there for 4 and a half hours!! The restaurant was only half full, we were waiting for what felt like hours between dishes (I do think we were almost waiting for an hour for our main which was a very simple cut of beef with ratatouille). I got the impression they were trying to serve everyone the same dishes at the same time despite people arriving much later than us! By 11pm we were quite exhausted... when another couple left they turned around to us and expressed how ridiculously long the whole experience was. If this restaurant wants to be an upmarket, tasting restaurant, they need to make the quality of their dishes consistent and either serve different dishes at different times or set a time for dinner to start!

A little paradise…the house and rooms are traditional style,clean and comfy! Food is like homemade and delicious! Katja,the owner was so friendly and welcoming that I couldn’t recommend this place anymore! We felt like home,like family…and wines are just spectacular! Highly recommend to visit them,and if you are lucky, to stay with them!

The place was amazing and the rooms we booked had a lovely view of the vineyards surrounding the house. Food and service had a very high standard and our host Tina was great at giving us advice on which other winery's to visit. Overall a superb experience!

Fantastic winery with a phenomenal kitchen dishing up modern Slovenian dishes. Very vegetarian friendly. We did a wine pairing with a 5 course lunch (which also included an amuse bouche, palette cleanser before mains, and a “pre-dessert”). The wines were all fantastic - more on the cleaner side despite most wines having a fair bit of skin contact.

Our itinerary only permitted us a single night's stay Kabaj but the wonderful Michelin standard meal and incredible Orange wine made it a sojourn to remember.||Add to that the lovely view of the vineyards from our balcony and Tina's attnetion to detail and notes on Kabaj's wine, spirits and food, it would be impossible for us to find any fault with our experience.||Kabaj comes highly recommended and we really hope to return one day soon.

Amazing evening! It’s been a while since we had such a good five course menu! Well chosen dishes, cooked at the highest possible level and with the right amount of creativity. Moreover the wines were fabulous! And the staff is amazingly friendly…if you are in this region you should try this place!!!