Rukatac, 2024

A white made like a red, left on its skins for a week, so it pours golden and has a gentle, chalky grip.

The Bura family has worked vines on Croatia's Pelješac Peninsula for centuries; Niko Bura revived the family label in 1995, and his sister Mare Mrgudić's children Boris and Antonija are the next generation. Rukatac, also called Maraština, grows inland at about 300 metres on red soil over limestone, farmed organically with no irrigation. It spends a week on its skins in open vats with wild yeasts, then four months in steel. Golden and salty, with chalky tannins and a bitter-almond finish.