 Hello, welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host, Matthew Horkey. So we're gonna do tasting of a very small producer today. Actually, I've become a friend of ours. Her name's Joe A. Herd. She's a master wine, a Brit, actually producing small batches of wine on the island of Guar in Dalmatia, in Southern Dalmatia in Croatia. She only produces four labels. We're gonna take a look at these days. Very small batch. She is, we've considered a friend. She did send us these samples, but the video is not sponsored in any way. We're just tasting and we're gonna see how these wines hold up. It's really cool because we have four wines here. We've already tasted one. We're gonna taste three. We have tasted these vintages. No, sorry, we have tasted these wines before, but in the past, like I tasted this one when it was a barrel sample. So I'm really excited to see how it was. We started off tasting last night. Already the Ahern Poship from Guar 2016. Beautiful Poship. You know what? It makes me excited, actually, because she's not doing Poship on Guar anymore. She's gonna start doing Poship from the island of Cortula, where Poship is actually from. And I'm really excited to see how it is. This Poship's beautiful. You're gonna have the right tropical fruit flavors I associate with Poship, the flintiness, the mineralness, the salinity, big body that does need some air. My only small criticism, I wanted a tiny more structure, a little bit more finish. I still think it was 4.0 out of 5 on the Vevino. I thought it was excellent, but let's move on to the real tasting, shall we? We have the Ahern Wild Skins from Guar 2016. This is bog, these are these crazy varieties, bog denouche, kooch, and Poship on the skins. It is an orange wine. Joey Herd mixed with spontaneous yeasts, all these, as little salt fights as possible. I guess they could be in these hipster natural wine types bars. You can see the beautiful color here. Let's give this a go here. You're gonna love the shrooms behind the camera. Has the yeastiness. You're gonna get with orange wine. Apricots, wow. I had this like six months ago, and this is a lot better than I remember. Orange peel, lemon, apricot, beautiful nose. Little bit of ginger, spice, ginger cake spice, let me give it a little bit of a go. Nice texture, weight. Sorry, I was doing an Airbnb start, I always went with that, but just went fine. Little bit of spiciness. This is so much better than I remember. Do you like the nose on this? It's funky and funky in a good way. Very juicy. You like this a lot? It's a lot of finesse, citrus. I usually take a walk to this side, but yeah, I enjoy it. I actually really like this better than I remember. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say 4.2, 4.3 out of five on Vivino. And it's a beautiful wine. 4.2, 4.2 out of five. So easily a 90-point type wine, beautiful type wine. It's so funny, because there's a dog running around here and she's trying to keep it out of the house. So, we're moving on here. The next wine we have, we have the Ashern Rosina made of this weird odd grape called Darnakusha from high elevations in Hoare. This was the first wine she released. I tasted this two years ago, not this vintage, but the first vintage she released two years ago when it first came out. I love this wine. Sherene loves this wine, more of a serious rosé. This is more kind of orangey in color, orange-saminy in color. Still exactly what you remember. Got a lot of strawberry, rose, mineral-tight notes. That is textured and big as I remember. Camer, I'm a... Oh, yeah, syringes in. So, you like a lot? What would you describe this as? What kind of flavors? It almost has this cherry syrupy finish to it as well. A little bit peaty. I like that the finish has texture, a little bit of astringency. I wouldn't call it tannin, because it's like tannin-plus acidity that gives this nice fresh astringency on the finish. It's a structured, rosé, beautiful nose. This is a weird grape that you don't see very much in Croatia, made in a variety of wine, Darnakusha. I kind of describe this between... For me, it tastes almost like halfway orange, halfway rosé, with texture. Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm thinking, yeah, you're right, man. I might be confused and wonder, huh, is this... Wow, I wrote about the first vintage. This is the newest vintage I taste. Wine that's very easily, for me, 4.3 out of 5 on Vivino. Like I said, these two wines above, I think, honestly, gonna score 90 points and above in any time of critic tasting. Good stuff. This is the kind of... Very, very juicy. Okay, the last wine we have, we have the Ahern Plovetsmalli Southside, 2014 from the Southern Slopes of Hvar. Now, I tasted this wine when it was a barrel sample two years ago. Sirene was a little bit scared to taste this wine. We're gonna see how it shows here. First of all, beautiful, true Plovetsmalli color. It's not super dark. Kind of like a little bit... Like kind of a Barbera-y Nebbiolo color. It's got some browning on the edges. Comes from the South Slopes of Hvar. Very steep slopes, right down tumbling down into the sea. Old bush vines. Let's give this a go. You're gonna love it. A lot of strawberry notes, a lot of Mediterranean herb. Rose petal, very floral. Plovetsmalli can be almost Nebbiolo kind of ask when it's done, right? Wow, really good wine. Medium body. You get some tar notes, small grippy tannins. Sirene, taste this. I think you're gonna be more impressed with this than you think. What do you think? I like the texture a lot. It's really smooth and harmonious. What's in the tissue? 2014. Yeah, I like the palette a lot. Very cleaned up. For me, another wine. For me, it's 4.3 out of 5. I think this is an excellent rendition of Plovetsmalli. For me, I really like the producers on Hvar when it comes to Plovetsmalli. The Plovets tends to be softer. So, you guys check these out. That wine, you have to drink it over a couple of hours. It's so new and that it's... Yeah. I got a lot of fine new ones. 4.3, 4.3, 4.2, 4.0. All some excellent wines. I think these wines are available in Viva and Croatia. I think they're also gonna be available in Wine and More. I'll put a discount code. We have discount codes for Wine and More for our viewers. Just know if you do order from Wine and More, we do get a small commission for whatever that's worth. I don't know if these are available on Wine and More yet, but just check it out. I'll put it up on the screen. Let me take one more sip of this before I end. Beautiful wine, beautiful wine. So guys, if you like this video, follow us on Facebook. And please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Exotic Wine Travel. I will see you in the next episode.