People from this area have soaked olives and vines with their sweat and hard labor for more than 2 000 years and they have given them life in return. That's why it is often said that wine flows through these people's veins. The olive that gives widely-known olive oil from Ravni Kotari and the vine that bears the wine, have long since ceased to exist here only as an agricultural product. Olive oil and wine have been treated as“the gift from heaven, Mother Earth's tear and the source of life“ for eons.