Vis vugava: There is only one queen!

The millennia suit her well! Read the story of vugava, the pride of Vis and the oldest Croatian wine variety

Vis vugava is rightly considered the queen of white wines in Dalmatia. For millennia, this unique grape variety has been growing and maturing far from the mainland, bathed by the sea and the Mediterranean sun.

Vugava of the Lipanović Winery is grown on a soil called in Vis dialect “žalika” (breccia) or “oštrica” (sharp soil) in Dračevo Polje, on gentle and sunny slopes.

It has a wonderful, natural golden yellow color, as well as a specific, pleasant, deep, and full fragrance. Vugava gives an extremely full-bodied wine, which also has enticingly pleasant fruity aromas and it is very fresh and drinkable. In our vugava you will smell the aromas of flat peaches, almonds, and apples, while, at your first taste, you will also recognize the rich taste of honey notes that suggest sweetness even though the wine is 100% dry.

DNA analysis confirmed vugava as an autochthonous Croatian wine variety, with a unique profile that does not match any other variety in the world, and the island of Vis is, in a sense, its genetic center.

After all, don Frane Bulić, the father of Croatian ampelography – science that studies grapevines of American, Eurasian and East Asian groups of Vitis varietis and especially the Vitis Vinfera L.variety – author of the oldest and most relevant ampelographic atlas and one of the most prominent Dalmatian conservators of antiquities and art historian from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, described vugava as “an excellent and one of the best varieties in Central Dalmatia”.