Croatian wine regions.\u00a0 Map courtesy of Vineyards.com.<\/em><\/p>\n A few notable facts:<\/p>\n The dominant red wine grape is Plavac Mali, pronounced \u201cPlavass Molly\u201d.\u00a0 It produces a dark, intense wine, which we would categorize with Merlot.\u00a0 It can be a little rough around the edges, but that may have more to do with the limited production facilities in Croatia.\u00a0 There are no large producers, just small vineyards making wine for their neighbors and fellow countrymen.\u00a0 So what we call \u201crough\u201d they might term \u201chonest\u201d.\u00a0 And to be fair, we did taste a number of Plavac Mali that went down smoothly.<\/p>\n We tasted two white wines from a variety of producers.\u00a0 They were called almost the same thing, but what a difference a single letter can make.\u00a0 Malvazia, with a z, (also sometimes spelled Malvazija) comes from Istria, the Croatian province not very far from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy, which is best known for Soave.\u00a0 But the Istrian wine is much fruitier, with hints of honey and honeysuckle.\u00a0 From what we saw of restaurants and wine bars in Dubrovnik, it\u2019s the most popular white wine there.<\/p>\n In the south, quite near to Dubrovnik, they grow Malvasia, with an s.\u00a0 This is the same grape used to make Malmsey Madeira, a luscious dessert wine.\u00a0 But the Croatian version is quite different.\u00a0 These white wines are austere (in the same vein as Chablis), acidic and distinctively perfumed.\u00a0 They go well with shellfish, much like a Sancerre, but are not especially good wines for sipping on a pleasant sunny afternoon along the beachfront.<\/p>\n Sadly, with rare exception, you won\u2019t find Croatian wines in the United States, which is a shame.\u00a0 There are a few stores in New York that carry a few bottles, but that\u2019s about it.\u00a0 The production at individual vineyards is too small to attract many American importers and the wines are too unknown to make a large place on wine store shelves.\u00a0 These are wines worth getting to know and we recommend that travelers to Croatia make time for them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We were only in Croatia for a few days, as part of a longer trip.\u00a0 We did not have the time nor the means of transportation to visit wineries, which we would certainly have done if the purpose of our visit was wine tasting.\u00a0 As it was, we were simply tourists in Dubrovnik, but we … Continue reading About Croatian Wines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/croatia_map.png\")
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