23/01/2024
🌊🦪🍷🍾🤿 About an hour’s drive north from Dubrovnik, Peljesac Peninsula is the perfect day excursion for wine and oyster aficionados.
Farmed in Mali Ston Bay, a sheltered marine reserve, these Protected Designation of Origin oysters have a distinctive flavor that comes in part from the mineral-rich water of karst springs. Mixing with seawater, it produces bivalves with a briny minerality that lingers and awakens the senses.
This famous Dalmatian Coast wine region provides ideal growing conditions for Croatia’s plavac mali grape, most likely an indigenous descendant of ancestral zinfandel and another old Croatian variety, dobricic.
Aside from some of the region’s best shellfish, Ston boasts Croatia’s first underwater winery.
After aging for a year in Slavonian oak barrels, the plavac mali is bottled, encased in amphorae, and stored to continue aging 60 to 80 feet underwater for at least 550 days. The sea provides darkness and a constant temperature of 60 degrees, which are essential for developing the wine’s dark-berry flavors and aromas. Visitors can pick up a Navis Mysterium amphora with a bottle of wine still encased in it – a natural work of art dotted with oyster shells, which attach themselves to the exterior during the aging process. Every bottle is unique, shaped by the sea.
During the winter (from November 1st to April 1st), tours are once a day and during summertime twice. You will dive with experienced and certified PADI instructors.
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