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Island ingredients flavour Gamulin Chocolates's chocolate in Jelsa, with carob and rosemary among the additions to its pralines and bars. The business has also hosted wine-and-chocolate pairings, linking the confectionery counter to Hvar wine events. On Lastovo, Podrum Šarić (Vina Šarić / Provin LNT) bottles estate-grown Rukatac and Plavac Mali, with cellar visits arranged directly through the winery. Poljoprivredna zadruga Postira (Postira Cooperative) makes wine and presses olive oil from members' vineyards and groves on northern Brač.
Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia
Gamulin Chocolates hand-makes pralines and bars in Jelsa, working island ingredients such as carob, rosemary and sage into its chocolate rather than sourcing generic fillings. The shop has hosted wine-and-chocolate pairing events in Hvar's historic Arsenal alongside its everyday counter sales.
Best for Handmade pralines flavored with island carob, sage and rosemary
Gornja Luka, Lastovo, Croatia
Nives and Nenad Šarić rebuilt the family cellar below the village of Lastovo in 2008, continuing vineyards their ancestors planted on the island, and now bottle Rukatac, Plavac Mali, Pošip, and Grk from estate-grown grapes. Visitors can book a cellar tour and tasting directly through the winery rather than through a tourism agency.
Best for Island-grown Rukatac, Grk, and Plavac Mali wines
Postira, Brač
The agricultural cooperative of Postira presses extra-virgin olive oil and makes wine from its members' groves and vineyards on the northern side of Brač. Its products are sold directly through the cooperative's own webshop and village outlet.
Best for Brač olive oil and cooperative wine
Poljoprivredna zadruga Postira is the agricultural cooperative of Postira, a village on the island of Brač. It was founded in 1945. Its office stands at Strančica 2, and the cooperative is run by general manager Petra Matulić. Olive oil is the core product. The cooperative's site states that Postira produces more food per head than any other Adriatic island, with an annual output of 50 to 100 tons of olive oil. In May 2021 its Postirska oblica extra-virgin oil won a gold medal at the NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition in New York. The cooperative is working on an original product of the island label. The label is meant to guarantee organic or integrated growing methods along with protected geographical indications and traditional preparation. Very little of what the island makes could be bought on the island itself. In response the cooperative opened an Etno Shop to show its local foods. Its souvenir shop sells handicrafts from Postira makers alongside its own virgin olive oil. With the Vladimir Nazor elementary school in Postira it is developing a garden school and a school cooperative to pass the culture of farming to the young. Products are sold through the cooperative's webshop and directly in the village. The cooperative corresponds in English as well as Croatian.
Riva waterfront, Bol (Brač)
Housed in Bol's restored 1903 wine cooperative building on the Riva seafront, Stina makes wines from indigenous Dalmatian grapes grown on the island's stony terraces, including Plavac Mali, Pošip, and Vugava. The name means 'stone' in the local dialect, a nod to the white Brač limestone that shapes the vineyards, and the harborside tasting room pours the full range.
Best for Brač island wines and tastings
Dominisova 3, Old Town (Diocletian's Palace), Split
Uje Oil Bar is a Split tasting shop for Croatian extra virgin olive oils, alongside truffles, vinegars, wine, spices and other Dalmatian delicacies. It's the Old Town branch (Dominisova 3) of Uje's small network of oleotekas along the Croatian coast, billed as the country's first dedicated oil bar.
Best for Croatian olive oils, truffles, vinegars and Dalmatian delicacies
Vis Town / Croatia
Vidović Winery grows organic Plavac Mali and Trebiano grapes on the island of Vis, pressing small batches near a tasting room set inside a Tyrolean-style house overlooking the family's thirty-year-old vineyard. Wine can only be tasted and purchased in person at the Dracevo Polje tasting room.
Best for Organic Plavac Mali and Trebiano wines tasted in person at a Tyrolean-style
Dubrava, Šibenik, Croatia
Vina Rak presses wine from the family's own vineyards in Dubrava, a hamlet just outside Šibenik, continuing an estate run as an obiteljsko gospodarstvo, a registered family farm business. The winery bottles its Dalmatian reds and whites under its own label and sells directly rather than through a distributor network.
Best for Family-made Dalmatian wine near Šibenik
Nerežišća, Brač
A family winery in the inland village of Nerežišća that bottles Plavac Mali and other Dalmatian varieties from vineyards on Brač's karst plateau. The cellar doubles as a konoba where the Senjković family serves its wines alongside island cooking.
Best for Family-run winery visit
Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia
Andro Tomić's winery in Jelsa champions Bogdanuša, a delicate white grape grown almost nowhere outside Hvar, alongside Pošip, Plavac Mali reds and a carob-and-sage Euforija liqueur. Premium bottlings such as Veliki Plavac Mali come from limited-production magnums drawn from the island's steep southern vineyards.
Best for Bogdanuša, Hvar's own white grape, and barrel-aged Plavac Mali
Sveta Nedjelja, Hvar Island, Croatia
Zlatan Plenković planted his family's Zlatan Otok vineyards on Hvar's steep, sun-baked southern slopes above Sveta Nedjelja, terraces reachable mainly by boat that grow Plavac Mali and Pošip. The winery's Zlatan Plavac bottling, aged for years before release, is widely credited with raising the international profile of Dalmatian red wine.
Best for Plavac Mali reds and Pošip whites from Hvar's terraced southern coast
Lumbarda, Korčula, Croatia
The Batistić family farmed at Lumbarda long before Zure became a commercial winery in 1996, planting eight hectares of the peninsula's sandy soil in 2011. Everything in the bottle is estate fruit — the Grk 'Bartul', a 2024 Decanter gold medalist reported by Varaždinske Vijesti, a Pošip, a Plavac Mali, and a sparkling Grk called Elysion.
Best for Lumbarda Grk and Pošip from estate-grown grapes
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