Product: Bire Grk Wine 0,75L
Country: Croatia
Region: Dalmacija
Producer: Bire
Closure: Wine Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%

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Bire Grk
Grk is a very rare Croatian autochthonous variety especially related to the sandy soil around Lumbarda on the island of Korčula, and very likely the most famous work signed by Frano Milina Bire.
This special wine has a golden yellow color, ripe fruit aromas with a very gentle herbal shade, elegantly combined freshness, sweetness and pleasant bitterness that is supposedly responsible for the very name of the variety. Undoubtedly an extremely important wine and variety of Croatian winemaking in southern Dalmatia.

With the production of top wines of the varieties Grk and Plavac Mali, Frano Milina Bire has completed the previous extremely attractive and rich tourist offer on its property based on domestic products. Grk is a Croatian autochthonous grape variety that thrives and achieves excellent results on the sandy and dry soil of Lumbarda on Korčula. Frano Milina Bire started the cultivation of the autochthonous white variety Grk and for the first time in 100 years revitalized the terraced traditional vineyards in the area. His vineyard is also the first ecological vineyard on the island.A small place originated in the rock and sea, located on the cape of the eastern part of the island of Korcula, has always attracted with its beauty. This is still evidenced today by the petrified pages of the past, scattered in the landscape as a lasting reminder of the long coexistence of man and nature. One of them takes us back to the ancient days of the 3rd century BC, when the Greeks from the ancient island of Issa, today's Vis, built their city on these shores. This event was permanently recorded on the famous stone inscription "Lumbard Psephism" written on a stone stela about the establishment of a colony and the division of the land of Greek settlers and the domicile Illyrian population in the area of ​​today's Lumbarda.