Croatia Wine Introduction

Wine production in Croatia has a long history. In the mid-5th century AD, Greek immigrants in the Croatian coastal reclamation vineyards and winemaking. After the previous war catastrophe, many wineries and vineyards have been destroyed, but still retain and develop the wine industry continues to this day.

Croatia more than 300 wine producers, the annual output of about 75 million liters, of which 60-70% of production is white wine, 30% are red wines, sparkling and rosé wine production is very small.

Croatia's coastal areas, mainly the production of red wine, of which only 10% of red wine is high quality wines, the rest is ordinary grade of wine. In the Croatian inland dry poor soil areas, 90 percent of wine produced white wine.

Although there are hundreds of grape varieties cultivated in Croatia, but Croatian wine experts recognized by the best red wine grapes Plavac Mali. Plavac Mali and Croatia in the genes is the same strain of the Zinfandel grape is the Zinfandel grape, a branch of species. Croatia famous white wine from the Prosecco grape varieties Bogdanusa white. In Croatia, Korcula, Istria, Posip, Malvazija and other producing areas of Croatia's most famous white wine. In Croatia, some white wine varieties more expensive, but very strange people in other countries such as Gra'evina grapes.