 welcome back to exotic wine travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. We're hearing Zagreb Croatia were kind of locked down during everything that's going on in the world today but that doesn't just because we're down doesn't mean that we're out. We're in the apartment tasting through tons of samples that we're getting and I wanted to share a grape that I think I think is a real interest to you especially if you make it to Croatia on holiday when everything around the world starts to clear up. You know one thing that I really like about Croatia and also Italy and to some a lesser extent Hungary is the just massive amount of indigenous grape varieties and in Croatia the main white grapes that you're gonna see that they kind of claim to be theirs is Malvasia Estarsko from Istria, Grasovina from Slovenia and then Poship from Dalmatia but there's also some lesser known white grapes and that includes debit we have from North Dalmatia have a couple of producers here now debit is it's cool because number one you can pronounce it it's easy to pronounce in English and several languages it's also in a nice easy drink and it shows where it's from it shows the Mediterranean weather and lately and lately there's some producers they're trying to make more ambitious examples now the grape was kind of made more famous by Bibic who exports a lot of his wine to the U.S. and Vino Plaud but these are two fairly new producers I think that are worth checking out first we have Ante Sladic this is his debit Oya Noya 2017 this is an orange wine he also makes a very fresh fruity easygoing debit watch I highly recommend this is an orange wine that's macerated for seven days he tries to make it in the style his grandfather used to make more of a yellow wine very very nice flavors apricot you get a little bit nutty nutty notes it's not too crazy the tannins aren't too hard really enjoyable there's other orange wines made out of debit like bibbitches boss the boss be yellow boss the boss white and then you have some serious examples made kind of more in the classical style this is a brand new per producer called Baraka this is his debit Reserva 2017 you know what's cool is this wine is a this wine is actually aged in both concrete tank concrete egg and used oak when you get debit in this style you're gonna get more kind of green fruits for me so I'm thinking more green pear green guava maybe a little bit on ripe white peach in a charming way Baraka's wines in general are very salty incredibly salty slady flinty salty so it's almost like mixing like the warmth of a Mediterranean grape with kind of the flintiness you get in an imozo wine sladishes are soddish's basic debit is more easy drinking more fruity as his bibbitches really cool and I like what the guys are doing with these kind of grapes since it's the Mediterranean heat they want to retain acidity they usually do several pickings they pick earlier to retain acidity and then they pick a little bit later to retain the fruit so wines that I think are unique they have character and they're definitely worth seeking out if you're in Croatia sometimes some of these wines some of these debits are exported worldwide I know that we have a link to wine and more we have a discount coach they'll ship over the EU bibbitch goes to America Baraka is more of a regional regional producer so you have to come to Croatia to get this so check it out Mediterranean unique white grapes go great with shell fish Dalmatian fish and olive oil so do you have a favorite indigenous unique white grape I'd love to hear in the comments section below so guys if you like this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel exotic wine travel click the bell so you get alerts when we get new videos and I will see you at the next episode