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Many people have never heard of Croatian wine before stepping foot in the country. A question we often get is, “How long has Croatia been making wine?”
The answer is about 4,000 years.
Cultivation and winemaking in Croatia began with the Illyrians followed by the Greeks. In fact, Croatia has the oldest continuously planted vineyard in the world. The Stari Grad Plain on the Hvar island has been planted with wine grapes for 24 centuries and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2008.
Croatia was part of Yugoslavia until 1991. During the socialist era of Yugoslavia, farmers were forced to sell their grapes to large, state-owned cooperative wineries where quantity was placed above quality.
The government also discouraged people from setting up their own wineries. Soon after Croatia gained independence, many growers started making and bottling wine under private labels and continue to do so today.
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