The DingaÄ Agricultural Cooperative is the country’s biggest producer of DingaÄ wines. The Cooperative possesses a large winery in which, alongside DingaÄ and Postup, less expensive wines such as Potomje and Pelješac are also produced. Their DingaÄ, first with a brown and then a red label bearing a characteristic sketch of a donkey, has for [...]
Vedran Kiridžija of Potomje on the Pelješac peninsula is one of about ten wine producers who have the honour of putting the name of DingaÄ on their wine labels. He owns a small vineyard in the locality of Mokale in the DingaÄ area where vines grow on gravel-based soil and from which he picks about [...]
In the summer of 2002 the prestigious Bronstein wine boutique in Zagreb organized a vertical tasting of Stagnum. Up until that point no other Croatian wine had either the honour or the opportunity to pass through the test of time and changes obligatory for all the great wines of France, Italy or California. This wine [...]
Both the Croatian wines produced by the famous Miljenko Grgić (Pošip and Plavac) rate between three and four stars and deserve a great deal of praise in what is unfortunately a still far too narrow spectrum of Croatian wine production. In the second half of the 1990s Grgić built a modern winery in Trstenik, not [...]
Andro Tomić of Hvar is the first Croatian wine maker whose wines received positive reviews in the highly regarded French professional journal La Revue du Vin de France. A wine tasting held in the spring of 2004, French wine critics and sommeliers ranked two of Tomić’s wines among the best 100 wines outside France, and [...]
Plenkovic is, in better years, one of the best Croatian wines generally speaking, but is particularly applicable to the 1999 vintage which has a great potential for maturing but can, sadly, still be found only in the Sveta Nedjelja winery. Later harvests (as we write, the 2003 and 2004 vintages are on the market) were [...]
The most constantly produced red wine in Croatia, needless to say, from Plavac mali, is Zlatan plavac, produced in the village of Svetan Nedjelja on the island of Hvar, and which comes in three versions: The standard, widely available Zlatan plavac with a light-blue label (two to three stars) which achieves the same quality practically [...]
DingaÄ of Pelješac is the best known winegrowing location in Croatia and there are mentions of it in foreign literature before WWII. There was a time when some 1200 hectares of the peninsula were under vineyards with red grape varieties accounting for 90% of the area.
Today it is not possible to say with any degree [...]
When the great Mike Grgić returned to Croatia one of the main tasks he set himself was to prove the identicalness, or at least an affinity, between the American Zinfandel and the Croatian Plavac mali. Subsequently, scientists established that Zinfandel is in fact Crljenac and that it is not directly related to Plavac mali, which [...]
Honey sweet, sumptuously rich Prošek with high alcohol content is possibly the most valuable Croatian contribution to the world’s wine industry. How original a wine Prošek is and how great it can be is borne witness to by an almost ecstatic review given to Tomić’s Hectorovich, one of the best Prošeks, by La Revue du [...]