For more than three thousand years, Dalmatian winemakers have been creating unique wines, each with its own story. Every wine carries its own tale, but they all share one main character — Mother Dalmatia, who unites these differences into a family of premium wines.

This region boasts nearly 5,500 hectares of thriving vineyards where, thanks to the Mediterranean climate and diverse terroir, winemakers cultivate indigenous Dalmatian varieties such as Plavac Mali, Babić, Debit, Pošip, Vugava, Grk, Maraština, and many others. In Dalmatia, you can strongly feel the temperament of the people — a temperament that does not change. They remain true to themselves and their beliefs no matter what, and this is ultimately reflected in their wines.

For this reason, this area is home to a wealth of different indigenous varieties that stubbornly thrive only in their chosen terroir.

Today, Dalmatia is divided into three wine subregions — Northern, Central, and Southern Dalmatia, along with the Dalmatian Hinterland, covering the counties of Zadar, Šibenik-Knin, Split-Dalmatia, and Dubrovnik-Neretva.

In Northern Dalmatia, which includes the area of Šibenik-Knin and Zadar counties, the most widespread red wine varieties are Plavina and Babić, but international varieties such as Merlot and Syrah are present as well. The most important white wine varieties include Maraština and Debit. The aforementioned area is the location of the famous vineyards of Primošten, Šibenik, Drniš, Benkovac and many others. Below the Northern Dalmatia, the Central Dalmatian wine region is located. It includes the Split-Dalmatia County and the islands, and the most important red wine varieties in this area are Plavac Mali, Tribidrag, Crljenak Kaštelanski, and Plavina, while the influential white wine varieties include Pošip, Rukatac, and Grk, which grow in the vineyards of Brač, Hvar, Šolta, Kaštela, Vis, and Omiš.

Similar to the Central region, but still native and special, is the southern wine region, in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, where varieties grow on the hilly slopes of Pelješac, in the vineyards of Komarna, Lastovo, Korčula, Neretva, and Konavle. The flagship of the Dalmatian Plavac Mali variety is the one that thrives on the Pelješac peninsula.

Although Dalmatia is a coastal region, there is, of course, a “continental” part of this wine region, i.e., the Dalmatian Hinterland. The most famous are the vineyards around the towns of Imotski and Vrgorac, where the red wine varieties of Trnjak, Vranac, Plavka, and the white varieties of Kujundžuša, Zlatarica, Žilavka, Medna grow.