The Mountain Mixologist of the Slovenian Alps

Photo caption: Rebolj, with some foraged finds. “Flowers will call me when they want to be picked,” she says. Photo credit: Primož Korošec. Article by Noah Charney. September 16, 2022.

The “blonde witch,” as locals affectionately call her, cannot walk more than a few paces in the alpine meadows around her home without gathering ingredients. What most of us pass over as merely lovely to look at—tall grass dusted with bursts of color from gentian, plantago, and lady’s mantle petals—Tanja Rebolj sees as key components of medicinal, and delicious, liquors of her own invention. Slovenians call her 22 varieties of liquor “schnapps.” But it’s not schnapps as the rest of us know it. […]

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