Slovenia always seemed so foreign to me.  If I didn’t know where it was, how good could their wines be?  I first became familiar with Slovenia the wine region when I read a Wine & Spirits magazine article about the Istrian Peninsula, where a tiny piece of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia meet on its western coast.  Then I met Slovenian winemaker Bojan Kobal in Stellenbosch a couple of years ago where we were fellow wine judges at the Michelangelo International Wine Awards.   Kobal is everything you hope for when …