The Wines of Croatia - Part One - White Wines
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Throughout our time here in Croatia, we have been sampling the local wines whenever possible. Though we didn't come anywhere close to arriving at a full understanding of the depth and breadth of Croatian wines, we did learn a few things that I want to remember the next time we come here. We all had a general sense that most Croatian wines are not produced at enough volume that we could find them in the United States. We had all heard that the most famous wine that originates from Croatia is Zinfandel. Apart from that, I was not familiar Croatian White Wines (that we tried) . . . . . Posip On our first night in Dubrovnik, we had dinner at the Excelsior Hotel. With our appetizer course, we ordered a Croatian white wine that originated on the island of Korcula -- a place we would visit later in the trip. The grape is called ' Posip ' and though it originated on the island of Korcula , it is now grown all over the Dalmatian region. Throughout our trip we ordered many different