Reading Time: How do you approach a wine country that you are unfamiliar with? With respect, curiosity, enthusiasm, openness, and---above all else---love for the place and its people. This is a narrative of how we ended up writing a book about Croatian wine. THE BEGINNING In 2016, before we went on a three-month,
Croatian Wine
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Buyer’s Guide: Croatian Wines in the USA
Exotic Wine Travel’s 17 Wines of 2017
Reading Time: 2017 marked the third year of our location-independent lifestyle and the second year of our wine career. It was a momentous year for us---in the span of 12 months, we authored and published our second and third wine book Sipping Santa Barbara and Cracking Croatian Wine, traveled to seven countries, and tasted
Saints Hills Dingač 2012: A Polished Plavac Mali
Highlights from Orange Wine Festival 2017
Zinfandel, Tribidrag, and Crljenak Kaštelanski: Same Grape, Different Name
Reading Time: In 2001, a team of researchers---led by Dr Carole Meredith from UC Davis and Dr Edi Maletić and Dr Ivan Pejić from the University of Zagreb---found nine remaining vines of Crljenak Kaštelanski (pronounce Tserl-yee-ehnak Kashh-tell-ann-skee) in a Croatian town called Kaštel Novi, near Split. The name Crljenak Kaštelanski aptly translates to
10 Plavac Mali Wines to Try (Besides Dingač and Postup)
15 Amber Wines (Orange Wines) to Try in Croatia
Reading Time: Refreshing like white, complex like red, versatile like sparkling, and fun like rosé: here comes orange wine. While those descriptors are mere generalizations, they do accurately illustrate the various facades of orange wine. Many people believe orange wine is having a moment. Some consider it to be the latest
