Had my first Plavac Mali 2 years ago at the restaurant CoccoLa in Hillsboro, NJ (right on 206). Drank it w/ Pork “Osso Buco”, been raving about it ever since.

GO COWBOYS

QOTD: None.

(I just ordered some of the Plavac Mali online though.)

Wow!

I’ll be looking for that one!!

BTW, Gary, you need to stand up for the Canadian Contingency and do hockey cards next time!

QOTD: Tokaj from hungary, both sweet and dry… Dry Furmint is really up there quality wise!!

All the best from Paris,

Never tried any Eastern European wines, I’m trying to get my friends to try more things but it’s tough going.

At least this time it’s not only us Quebecers that can’t get the wine 🙂

HEY GARY ,WHAT A SURPRISE WHO COULD’VE THOUGHT ,I’VE TRIED ONE EASTERN EUROPEAN WINE BEFORE IT’S CALLED MAVROUT …NOT SURE ABOUT THE SPELLING LOL
AND IT’S FROM BULGARIA ,NOTHING CRAZY THOUGH VERY BASIC ,WAY TOO SWEET AT LEAST FOR ME IT WAS ,BUT MY GIRLFRIND AT THE TIME LIKED IT,IT DID NOT BRING THE THUNDER FOR ME THAT’S FOR SURE ,IT WAS VERY SEMILAR TO A FAKE CALIFORNIAN PINOT NOIR .

Forebearer, genetic parent, or ancestral grape would be the correct relation to Zinfandel of Pavac Mali, rather than the opposite, and incorrectly used term “descendant”. Napa Valley legend and Croatian native Mike Grgich brought attention to this relation, and has been making wine in Croatia since at least the mid nineties.

QOTD: UGH…none. There I said it.

Thanks for the great info.
Answer to the question would be… none… yet.

QOTD: Currently I have had None.

Actually, Murso, Gary is correct in that it is the child of Zinfandel. Crljenak Ka?telenski (otherwise known as Zinfandel or Primitivo) was crossbred with Dobri?i? to create Plavac Mali, thus making it the child of Zinfandel. For anyone who wants to try it, you can buy it from this importer: http://www.bluedanubewine.com

-miquel
Vinologue (the yet to be released book about the wines of this region)

Since I am from Slovenia which is a neghbouring country to Croatia my answer would be quite a few. 🙂 Never tryed Plavac though, but I will in the future, due to this show I guess.

I think you should also try some of the Slovenian wines, my personal opininon is that they are WAY better than Croatian, hehe (this is only my personal opinion). 🙂

A note about Tokaj to a guy from Slovakia and those who might be interested: Tokaj used to be produced all over the Eastern Europe but Hungarians made Tokaj a Hungarian trade mark a few years ago therefore other wine makers all over the Eastern Europe who used to make Tokaj are not allowed to call their wines Tokaj any more, instead they get to call them sauvignonasse / sauvignone vert.This decision was especially brutal for Slovenian wine makers since we’re also a neighbouring country to Hungary. Nowadays there is still a lot of controversy present in Eastern Europe wheather Tokaj is really a Hungarian wine or not.

Great show! Nice to see a killer wine rock the house! I like hearing about wines from all over the world. Keep up the great work Gary!
QOTD: None. Haven’t had any wines from Eastern Europe that I know of. I will keep an eye out for them now…

QOTD: None. I haven’t had any European wines.

I’m sort of doing that blind pick at the grocery store purchase. They actually have a large selection of wines where I shop. So far I haven’t found anything that I love.

Ants in your Plavac pants Gary.

QOTD: None, but am willing to try.

Had a Saperavi from Georgia that was pretty good.

QOTD: None :/

I liked the seating change though. Slick move.

Great show as usual GARY, QOTD: None…BOOOOOO!!!

QOTD: NONE!

QOTD: Nothing that i can remember.

QOTD: None yet, but I will do everything in my power to find this amazing wine!

Great show GV.

QOTD: Never had a Croatian wine…but I’m going to look for one now!

Wow! REALLY cool! I love when this stuff happens. QOTD: none yet but I will try to find this for Turkey day as well.

I have to admit that I have never had any eastern european wines, not even 1. I live in the middle of nowhere but the next time I hit Jet City it is gonna be on like donkey kong.

I have had many Eastern European wines but none that were good. Maybe the Otok Plavik if if it can be found.

Depending upon exactly where you include Eastern Europe to be defined by (see Wikipedia for interesting geographic, etc. delineations), there have been dramatic, and much needed improvements in many nations, with most switching over to widely recognized international (vinifera) varietals. This will add important commercial appeal to their industries, and in fact, there has already been going on, since the fall of the former Soviet bloc, a mad dash for land and investment ,with some major input from Wine nations such as France, Napa, and Australia, and even consular participation of flying winemakers, as noted by an earlier post. It’s been easy to get cheap Pinot noir, Merlot, P.G., and Sauv Bl. for awhile, but now they’re getting a little better in quality. The local varietals and techniques of production, historically could not yield wines of a quality much more than quaint or pleasant at best, and by the time you could find them in America, they’d be toast in a bottle. Thank goodness that’s changing, but most of what you find, from the Balkans and East, will remain in that “acceptable, pleasant, not expensive” range. The wines of WAY East (Georgian Kidzmarauli, Kvanchkara – stuff like that) – will remain sweet and repulise to our tastes for the forseeable future.