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Topić SokićSmall-batch natural juices from the heart of Šipovo

Biljana and Goran Topić and family, Šipovo

A drawn 0.2-litre juice bottle filling with the colour of the chosen fruitTopić SokićLIMITED EDITIONAUTUMN · 0.2 L

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There is something about juice that does not come from a factory. When you taste it, you know exactly which fruit is in it, you know it was picked somewhere nearby, and you know it did not spend months travelling to a supermarket shelf. That is the story behind Topić Sokić, a small family brand from Šipovo that has, over recent seasons, been winning over lovers of natural, freshly pressed juices throughout the Krajina region and beyond.

Instead of large batches and a flavour that stays identical all year round, the idea behind Topić Sokić is simple: every bottle should reflect one particular harvest, one autumn, and one combination that may never be repeated in exactly the same way. It is a juice with a date, a place and a story, not just a label.

A small brand with a big story

From the field to the bottle, through the hands of the same family.

Topić Sokić is a family business in the truest sense of the word, a brand run by Goran and Biljana Topić with their family. That is not a marketing line but a way of working: from the field to the bottle, through the hands of the same family. Their philosophy is straightforward and they hold to it consistently, and it comes down to one thing, quality above everything else.

What sets this brand apart is that a good part of their juices relies on their own fruit and vegetables. For certain juices the raw material comes entirely or mostly from their own fields and orchards, and those are exactly the combinations customers ask for most. When a producer grows what they press, they control every step: when to harvest, how to store the fruit before pressing, and the exact ratio in which the ingredients finally come together. That attention to detail is what you taste in the glass.

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The whole process is simple.

The fruit and vegetables

  1. 01we pick
  2. 02we wash
  3. 03we mill
  4. 04we press
  5. 05we pasteurise
  6. 06we pour it hot into warmed, sterile bottles

And that is it – no:

  • added water
  • sugar or other sweeteners
  • concentrates
  • preservatives
  • colourings
  • artificial flavourings

— Biljana and Goran

The Topić Sokić logo — a golden oriole on a branch beside the lettering
The golden oriole, the bird on their logo.

Ornithologists in the orchard

Topić Sokić is not just a brand – it is the way of life of Goran and Biljana Topić, ornithologists, conservationists and the founders of this small family story. Years spent in the field, out in nature, watching birds taught them the most important lesson: you may take from nature only as much as it can give on its own, so that its balance is kept for the generations to come.

Their juices are made with love, entirely without chemicals or harmful by-products that could pollute the soil, the water or the air. Goran and Biljana believe deeply in a hundred-percent circle of sustainability – fruit scraps are composted and returned to the soil, glass is reused, and cardboard and metal caps are carefully recycled. And their mission does not end there. They actively pass their passion for ecology and sustainable work on to those around them, inspiring the community to take a step toward a greener future.

  • Fruit scraps↻ compost, back to the soil
  • Glass↻ reused
  • Cardboard and metal caps↻ recycled
Every bottle of Topić Sokić carries the clean taste of untouched nature and a mission: to make our world more beautiful, and the birds in it safer.

Šipovo as the backdrop of flavour

To understand the taste of these juices, it helps to know where they come from. Šipovo lies in the hilly western part of Republika Srpska, at the point where the rivers Pliva and Janj meet, surrounded by forests, pastures and clean mountain air. It is a place where people do not rule nature but adapt to its rhythm and to the clear turning of the seasons.

That setting is not just a pretty backdrop. It is the reason the fruit and vegetables from this area have such a full, pronounced flavour. A mild continental climate, clean soil and quality water give the apples, pears, beetroot and aronia a character you can recognise. At Topić Sokić that origin is not hidden but placed front and centre. Their juices are, in a way, the best ambassadors of the region they come from, because they carry the taste of old orchards and of fields you can see from the village road.

The river Pliva near Šipovo, turquoise water between green meadows and hills
The Pliva near Šipovo. First-class water, with the fields right beside it.

Juices made only in autumn

One of the things that makes this brand special is that the juices are pressed exclusively in autumn, when the fruit and vegetables reach full ripeness. The preparation, however, begins much earlier. The whole year works toward those few autumn weeks when all the effort is poured into bottles.

  1. jan
  2. feb
  3. mar
  4. apr
  5. may
  6. jun
  7. jul
  8. aug
  9. sep
  10. oct
  11. nov
  12. dec

  • febFields ploughed, fruit trees pruned.

  • aprWaiting for a stable, warm spell to sow.

  • sepPressing whatever ripened that summer and autumn.

Because of this, the batches are small and every one is limited. A single pressing yields around forty litres of juice on average, while for the most popular combinations more than eight hundred litres are made over the season. Every product therefore carries the “limited edition” label for good reason, because once a batch runs out, the next one waits for the following year and the following harvest. This seasonal scarcity is not a flaw but the whole point. It guarantees that the bottle holds nothing but what truly ripened that summer and autumn.

There is also a narrower category, “very limited edition”, in which certain juices are made in fewer than a hundred bottles. These are rare or unusual combinations that are hard to find anywhere else, and they sell the fastest.

One pressing about 40 l

two hundred 0.2-litre bottles

Very limited edition

fewer than a hundred bottles, and the first to go

Over a season over 800 l

only for the most popular blends

From classics to rare combinations

The Topić Sokić range runs from proven classics to bold experiments. The base is always reliable ingredients, while the creativity is expressed in carefully designed pairings of fruit and vegetables. Playing with flavours and ratios gives rise to entirely new products without any compromise on quality. That is why some of their juices are genuinely unique on the local market.

Batches are seasonal and come back every year, depending on what fruit is available. This is the typical range, not a price list — what is in the bottle right now is on their profiles.

Most of their juices are named after a bird, and one after a mammal. That same animal is drawn on the label.

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Blends

Freshness and body, acidity and sweetness in a single glass.

Single-fruit

Nothing distracts from the fruit itself.

Very limited edition

Fewer than a hundred bottles. Pairings that simply cannot be found among other producers in this region.

Grmuša

Most of their juices carry their own names, such as the “Grmuša” juice, a blend of apple and elderberries, named after the warbler that competes with them for those very berries out in the wild. Behind names like that is not just marketing, but a love of nature and of birds, and a small story about the unbreakable bond between their juices, nature and birds.

For those who prefer clean, single-origin juices, there is pure aronia, pure pear and apple juice. And in that narrowest, rarest category sit the real curiosities: Siberian lemon, blackthorn, quince, elderberry, jostaberry, blackcurrant and pumpkin, often in pairings that simply cannot be found among other producers in this region. Some of these can be found only from these makers in Šipovo, which is exactly why they are worth catching while they last.

  • A ripe sloe, a dark blue berry on a thorny blackthorn branch
    Blackthorn
  • Ripe yellow quinces on the branch
    Quince
Beetroot slices close up, deep red with concentric rings

Beetroot from Kupres

Among what they grow themselves, the beetroot stands out. The variety was chosen with particular care: grown in the fertile soil of Kupres and its harsh climate, it gives a unique sweetness, colour and flavour. Together with apple and carrot it becomes “Rumenka”, the juice that has become the brand's trademark. Alongside it are favourite blends such as apple, beetroot, carrot and lemon, which bring freshness and body, acidity and sweetness together in a single glass.

Ingredients worth earning

At Topić Sokić, a great deal of care goes into where each ingredient comes from. The aronia, for instance, has been sourced for years from the same small local grower, because trust in quality is not something you swap out overnight.

The elderberry, on the other hand, they pick themselves, fully ripe, far from roads, factories and pollution, in places pesticides and herbicides never reach. That means more effort and fewer berries, but also the certainty that only what is clean and ripe ends up in the bottle. It is precisely in details like these that the difference lies between juice that is “natural” on the label and juice that genuinely is.

  • A cluster of ripe dark purple aronia berries among green leaves
    Aronia. From the same small local grower for years.
  • Ripe black elderberries on red stalks
    Elderberry. Picked by hand, far from any road.

Natural, full stop

One hundred percent natural, one hundred percent free of chemicals.

The whole idea of Topić Sokić rests on this one sentence they are happy to repeat. In practice that means juice obtained by pressing ripe fruit and vegetables, with no artificial additives to extend shelf life or “improve” the taste. What is harvested is what ends up in the bottle.

That approach has its cost in terms of quantity and availability, because a natural product without preservatives cannot be made non-stop or in unlimited batches. But that is exactly where its value lies. Every bottle is seasonal, honest and distinctive, offering a taste an industrial juice can hardly match. The customer gets not just a drink, but a piece of one specific autumn in Šipovo.

How to get their juices

For now, Topić Sokić tells its story mainly through social media, where they announce when each batch is out and what is currently available. Anyone who wants their juices is best off following their profiles and reaching out directly, since the small batches mean stock changes quickly. The juices come in a practical 0.2-litre bottle, just right for a single glass of honest, seasonal flavour, and also in 0.75-litre and 1-litre bottles for everyone who has truly fallen for their blends and flavours.

And the story is still growing. Alongside the existing juices, new varieties are planned, as well as fruit spreads and preserves, so the range is slowly stepping beyond the glass while the principle stays the same: natural and homemade, as far as the season allows.

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The brand is gradually expanding its delivery. Customers are kept informed of all the details in good time, which says a lot about the relationship this small producer keeps with its community.

Banja Luka, Srbac, Kozarska Dubica — followed by Livno, Tomislavgrad.

Or at the centre

We keep Topić Sokić juices at the Pecka Visitor Centre all year round, for as long as a batch lasts. In summer they are at the Šareni market too.

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A neighbourhood worth discovering

Stories like Topić Sokić are the reason this area is worth getting to know slowly, through the people who make things here. Not far from Pecka and Mrkonjić Grad, Šipovo is part of the same neighbourhood of small producers whose work keeps the flavour and character of western Krajina alive. Their juices are, in that sense, more than a refreshment. They are a small window into the nature and way of life of this region.

Next time you find yourself somewhere in this part of Republika Srpska, look for a bottle of their pressed juice. In it, a whole autumn is gathered, one orchard and one family who believe that real quality needs nothing more than a clean landscape, good fruit, patience and a great deal of love.

Photographs of the fruit and of Šipovo: Wikimedia Commons — the Pliva near Šipovo (Malesevic Darija, CC BY-SA 4.0); Janjske otoke (Budzak2, CC BY-SA 4.0); beetroot (Rawpixel Ltd, CC BY 2.0); aronia (MiraculixHB, public domain); elderberry and blackthorn (AnemoneProjectors, CC BY-SA 2.0); quince (SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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