Uncorking Korcula
BEYOND Summer Sips Uncorking Korcula On the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea lies Korcula, the island that is beginning to get attention from global wine connoisseurs and culinary enthusiasts. By Abhilasha Ojha You can sample port right hen Frano Banicevic pours Plavac Toreta from the barrel, including 2015, a fairly refi ned the one from your birth year. wine, it seems like drops of garnet dance Wand twirl in my glass. The Toreta vineyards are located in Smokvica, “Life,” he says, smiling intently, one of the oldest villages in Korcula. This family- “is useless without wine.” This is the owned wine brand—founded by Banicevic’s sixth wine that we’re tasting as part great grandfather almost fi ve decades ago—is of Korcula’s wine tour (pronounced considered to be one of the earliest private Kor-chu-la), a four-hour, must-do wineries to bring out premium-quality Posip. expedition organised by Korkyra Info It produces roughly 40,000 bottles of wine per Agency (korkyra.info) that takes you Clockwise: A plate of year, growing Posip, Rukatac, and Plavac. around the island, one of the prettiest chips and barbequed I realise that it is a matter of great pride that meat; vineyards in the in Croatia. It is a fascinating journey village of Lumbarda, we taste Posip in Korcula, the birthplace of this to understand Croatian wines, seed sifters, transfer wagons, fi eld tools, among Korcula; a bucket wine. There is such growing interest in this wine fi lled with wine the commodity that is gradually other objects.
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