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Winnica Wzgórze Nadziei Jamna

Wzgórze Nadziei Vineyard Jamna

Drewniana, zadaszona brama prowadząca do winnicy Wzgórze Nadziei zdrewnianą tabliczką z napisem Brama Świętego Józefa

Jamna 7, 32-842 Jamna

tel. +48 742083950
Jamna is a small village in the Zakliczyn municipality, about 30 km south of Tarnów. It is located relatively high on the slopes of the Jamna Massif (530 metres above sea level), one of the culminations of the Rożnowskie Foothills. Jamna is home to two of the highest vineyards in Małopolska and the whole country. One of these is the Wzgórze Nadziei Vineyard at the Dominican monastery.
The Dominicans settled in Jamna in 1992 when an academic, pastoral centre was established in a dilapidated school building donated by the municipality and abandoned for years, founded by the charismatic Dominican from Poznań, Father Jan Góra. For the founder, the site had a special significance as it was marked by the trauma of the bloody events of September 1944, when German soldiers slaughtered a large number of villagers, including women and children, in retaliation for supporting the partisans. The mission of the centre, which has combined a pastoral function with the animation of cultural events since its beginning, has become to restore the place's spirit of hope. One element of this spiritual reclamation was the establishment of a minor, symbolic vineyard, which was planted between 1992 and 1993. This referenced biblical tradition and the Dominican legacy, as grape vines have been cultivated at many of the congregation's monasteries for centuries. 
Following the unexpected death of the founder in 2015, Father Andrzej Chlewicki, another custodian of the site, refers to his ideas about the vineyard. It was at his initiative that probably the best and most experienced monastic winegrower and vintner in Poland, Father Dr Marek Grubka, a theologian and cultural expert, as well as a graduate of the Podkarpacie Wine Academy in Jasło and postgraduate studies in oenology at Jagiellonian University, appeared in Jamna. Prior to this, Father Marek was in the Dominican congregation at the Church of St Jacob in Sandomierz. He was instrumental in reconstructing the historic vineyard that had existed at the monastery since 1226.
His work also includes the current vineyard in Jamna, set up in spring of 2021. It covers an area of approximately 40 acres on a gentle south-facing slope at a relatively significant altitude of around 450 metres above sea level. As many as 1500 vines of six exclusively white grape varieties have been planted there.
 

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