Morna manor
Morna manor (in German Morne) was established around 1800 when it was separated from the neighbouring Õisu Manor. From its establishment until its expropriation in 1919, the manor was owned by the von Sievers family, and the last owner was Karl von Sievers. The father-in-law of von Sievers, Ernst Ohlsen, a Dane who was the head gardener of Wagner’s orchard business, planted the fields and stumps at Morna with young apple trees, drained a large section of the bog, and established an orchard there. He also built greenhouses and a rose garden. Their business connections included cities such as Riga, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.
Morna, along with its apple orchards, was divided into settler farm plots
I maailmasõda tõmbas tõusvale ärile kriipsu peale. Von Sievers lahkus Saksamaale, jäid vaid vanad Ohlsenid. Pärast perioodi, kus osavad ärimehed pealinnast olid Morna aiatalu riiklike toetuste väljapetmiseks kasutanud, andis 1929. a. riik selle hallata lähedalasuvale Polli riigimõisale.
In 1935, the Polli Agricultural and Horticultural School was established, which also included the Morna horticultural farm
The school closed its doors for good in the spring of 1946. The research institute Polli Institute of Horticulture and Apiculture worked in Polli since 1945. In 1946 it became the Institute of Agriculture (later Plant Production) of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, which also included Morna’s gardens where scientists tested new varieties of apples, pears, plums and cherries, and bred a number of fruit varieties: 26 apple, 3 pear, 19 plum, 1 sour and 16 sweet cherry varieties, 4 strawberry, 6 raspberry, 1 red currant, 3 white currant, 13 blackcurrant and 1 gooseberry varieties have been developed in Polli.
Gavronski family
The Gavronskis bought the former farm worker’s house of Morna Manor, which had also been used for drying apples, in 2010. About a decade earlier, the Mets family had restored the ruins of the nearby windmill and turned it into a home, dredged the artificial lake and restored many hectares of apple orchards.
The large farm worker’s house is now a hospitable place for living and seminars, there is a wine cellar and the buildings of the new wine production facility are also being built.
We have roughly 4,000 grape plants in the vineyard in addition to blackcurrant plants and cherry trees.
Our product range includes both pure grape wines and a wide selection of various berry wines. All of our products are handcrafted, from harvesting the berries to bottling, and we strictly follow the philosophy of microvinification.
