Product: Zanchi Dobričić Kružine
Country: Croatia
Region: Kaštela
Producer: Zanchi
Closure: Wine Cork
Alcohol: 14.20%

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Dobričić is an ancient red grape of the Dalmatian coast, one of the two parents of Plavac Mali, grown on the island of Šolta for close to a thousand years and nearly extinct by the early 2000s. Dražen Zanchi planted it in 2012 on a parcel he inherited at Kaštel Lukšić, across the channel from Šolta, north of Split.

Zanchi is a doctor of physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Living there he discovered natural wine and decided to make one that was authentically Dalmatian. He makes a single wine from this grape: spontaneous fermentation on indigenous yeasts, no added sulphites, about two years in neutral oak, from very low yields and in tiny quantities, a few hundred bottles a year.

Dobričić was prized on Šolta for its deep ruby colour. This is a natural red made with a light hand and a long rest in old wood.

Serve at 16 degrees with lamb, beef, game, cured meats or a mature hard cheese.

Dražen Zanchi is a doctor of physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris who inherited a parcel at Kaštel Lukšić, north of Split, and planted it with Dobričić in 2012. He makes a single natural wine from the grape, in a few hundred bottles a year.