 It has a relatively low alcoholic content of 8.5% to 10%.Despite its long history of being known as a sour and poor wine, it has recently become a very popular drink with both local people and visitors to the region.In the Middle Ages the Lower Carniola was a constituent part of the March of Carniola, and its wine was named Marvin (from German Marwein from Markwein), which was also mentioned by Valvasor, a seventeenth-century Slovenian historian.