Sladic Winery from Skradin is finding popularity in Germany and Sweden
February 17, 2022 – Sladic Winery from near Skradin impresses foreign visitors to Croatia from around the world with its flavors and tasting room. The Germans and Swedes are among those who have made an impression on themselves thanks to this Croatian vineyard.
As Poslovni Dnevnik / Marta Duic writes, Sladic Winery is engaged in the production and cultivation of various indigenous Croatian varieties, they have vineyards on three sites that extend over six hectares and produce a huge 35,000 bottles per year. The business is run by Joso and his sons Ivan and Marko and in Plastovo near Skradin they have a tasting room where guests from all over the world come and taste what they have produced. Ivan Sladic pointed out that the most common foreign guests are French, American and British citizens, and even though their original market is the rest of Dalmatia, 20 percent of Sladic Winery’s production is exported to Sweden and Germany.
“Growing these vines and wine production has been in our tradition for a long time now and has developed from generation to generation. The tradition started with my great-grandfather, but for the past 25 years, Sladic Winery has launched bottles of the highest quality wine on the market. For us, the past year has been challenging and unpredictable and characterized by the collegiality of those in the catering and hospitality industry, as well as winemakers, to help get rid of old stocks in this difficult situation, says Ivan Sladic.
Sladic Winery’s current focus is on autochthonous varieties and they have as many as ten labels under their belts, and in 2020 they placed one of the first sparkling wines in Dalmatia from the Marastina variety. They mostly believe in this variety and started building a business with it, and they make four different products from it – fresh maraschino, sparkling wine, aged wine and dessert wine.
“Our Deorum, a dessert wine from maraschino, has a special history behind it. It is made according to a traditional recipe that is over a hundred years old. We also made a documentary about it, which shows the whole production process. The Maraschino dessert wine meant a lot to our region and was one of the biggest European brands. It was appreciated by the people because the production process involved with it is very difficult, only 10 percent of the total amount of grapes is actually obtained, so we can say that it is real nectar when it comes to wine, ” Sladic explained, emphasizing that this wine was recognized as early as 1934 by the Institute of General Pathology and Pharmacology at the Royal University of Zagreb, which approved the use of maraschino for the manufacture of medicines and medicinal wines.
As he added, this is a unique case in this country, and there are few examples in the world that a wine is officially included among medicines. They plan to plant two more hectares of the lasin variety, which thrives exclusively in the area, to place their babic on the market and to improve the technology in their cellar from the Wine Envelope.
“We care about constantly improving our products to the maximum, as our varieties have excellent parameters for being side by side with the world’s great wines,” they concluded from Sladic Winery.
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