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Further Recognition Of The Standard Of The Wines From The Island Of Hvar Was Provided At The 21st Sabatina World Wine holiday In Zadar On Saturday Nov 5, 2011, As The Island's Leading Producer Zlatan Otok Took First Prize For The Red And White Wine Classes.
There was more awareness for the wines from Hvar at Sabatina 2011 in Zadar, as Zlatan Plenkovic's Zlatan Otok wines win top prize for both red and white.
Further recognition of the quality of the wines from the island of Hvar was provided at the 21st Sabatina global wine festival in Zadar on Sat. Nov five, 2011, as the island's leading producer Zlatan Otok took 1st prize for both the red and white wine categories.
Zlatan Otok, First Winner of Best Wine for Both Red and White
The winery, owned by Zlatan Plenkovic and based mostly on the southern side of Croatia's sunniest island in the beautiful village of Sveta Nedjelja, won best red wine with its 2008 Zlatan Plavac Grand Cru, while the winning white wine was the 2010 Zlatan Posip. It was actually the first time in Sabatina's 21-year history that both categories were won by the same producer.
In a small ceremony before the official awards, Plenkovic told reporters that he was very pleased with the awareness for the white Posip, according to a report in Zadarski List. Its vineyards are found near Makarska and are only five years old , and he was pleased to be in a position to produce such an award-winning wine from a young vineyard without the employment of artificial fertilizers.
Arrival of Croatian Wines on the World Scene
Croatian wines have been comparatively uncommon on the world scene, but things are changing fast. The art of wine-growing on Hvar goes back to the arriving of the Ancient Greeks in latter-day Stari Grad, and the adjoining Stari Grad Plain - under UNESCO protection - is the largest cultivated field on the Adriatic, with wine and olive production continuing uninterrupted for 24 centuries.
After a fatal phylloxera attack in the initial half of the 20th Century and a dearth of sub-structure during the Commie time, Croatian wines are starting to take the global wine world by storm, with some 65 Croatian wines winning awards at the 2011 Decanter Wine Awards, as an example.
The Wine Producers of Hvar
Leading the way is Plenkovic himself, the only producer of a Grand Cru in Croatia. A hurried glance at the awards page on the Zlatan Otok site gives a suggestion of the global pedigree of the winery's wines. Not that Plenkovic is the only quality producer on Hvar ; the wines of Andro Tomic in Jelsa, Vinarija Caric in Svirce, the Plancic winery in Vrbanj, and the lively reds of Ivo Dubokovic in Jelsa are all worth searching out.
One of the best techniques of doing this (and seeing the island at the same time) is by taking one of the fantastic wine tours offered by local travel experts like Secret Hvar or Hvar Excitement. Expect to hear a lot more about the wines from Croatia in general and Hvar particularly in the coming months,writes tagza.com.
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