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Day trip to Zlatni Rat (Golden Horn) Beach

Speed Boat Excursions

Golden Horn Beach & Wine Excursion

Golden Horn Beach & Wine Excursion includes:

  • Private speed boat, fuel and skipper
  • Drive to southern side of Brač island
  • Snorkeling and swimming at Golden Horn (Zlatni Rat) beach
  • Wine & delicacy tasting in Bol town at the most acclaimed island winery
  • Full day excursion

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The wine Stina comes from the Adriatic island of Brač, known for its beautiful nature and its snow white stone. The island and its stone have always been the sources of inspiration to many sculptors, poets, painters and novelist. Like the island Brač, the wine Stina inspires everyone who taste it.

Enjoy a wine tasting in their renovated winery in center of Bol town and listen to the story about wine from the stone.

Hvar Wine & Dine

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Hvar Wine & Dine

Hvar Wine & Dine Excursion includes:

  • Private speed boat, fuel and skipper
  • Drive to southern side of Hvar island
  • Snorkeling and swimming at Paklinski Islands
  • Traditional lunch made with seasonal ingredients with local wine
  • Tasting the best boutique wine from Hvar
  • Full day excursion

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Let us take You to island Hvar, year after year proclaimed to be one of the best 10 islands in the world. Paklinski islands surrounding Hvar hide some of the best and weirdest restaurants on the Adriatic, as well as some spectacular beaches and rocks for snorkeling.

You will drink amazing whites and reds from the vineyard in front of the restaurant, taste fish caught around the surrounding islands, drink indigenous Dalmatian grappas and try some delicacies not possible to find elsewhere. Hvar town itself is a feast for the eyes with it´s rich history, 16th century fortress towering over the center, the oldest public theatre in Europe and a lot more.

Hvar Fishing Experience

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Hvar Fishing Experience

Hvar Fishing Experience includes:

  • Private speed boat, fuel and skipper
  • Drive to southern side of Hvar island
  • Snorkeling and swimming at Paklinski (Pakleni) Islands
  • Net fishing with local fisherman
  • Traditional lunch made with seasonal ingredients, fish caught in nets and local wine
  • Full day excursion

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Let us take you to island Hvar, year after year proclaimed to be one of the best 10 islands in the world. Paklinski, also called Pakleni, islands surrounding Hvar hide some of the best and weirdest restaurants on the Adriatic, as well as some spectacular beaches and rocks for snorkeling.

You will drink amazing whites and reds from the vineyard in front of the restaurant, taste fish caught around the surrounding islands, drink indigenous Dalmatian grappas and try some delicacies not possible to find elsewhere. Hvar town itself is a feast for the eyes with it´s rich history, 16th century fortress towering over the center, the oldest public theatre in Europe and a lot more.

Boat trip to Trogir, Croatia

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Trogir Tour & Shellfish Tasting

The Trogir Tour & Shellfish Tasting includes:

  • Private speed boat, fuel and skipper
  • Drive to islands around Trogir
  • Snorkeling and swimming at hidden beaches
  • Shellfish tasting paired with local wine
  • Visit to old town Trogir
  • Full day excursion

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Croatia with roughly 1246 islands and rocks offers amazing possibilities for unforgettable boat trips. Islands and rocks surrounding town Trogir are perfect for cruising, snorkeling and exploring numerous beaches and coves. After snorkeling and leisure on the boat we´ll take you on a shell tasting to one of the best sea food restaurants in Dalmatia. Even in the ancient times shells were refereed to as ´The food of Gods´.

The amounts of Iodine and Zinc contained in sea shells are unprecedented in any other food rich with these nutrients. Oysters and mussels are the most famous but not the only sorts you will try here. For the dessert we cruise to the old town Trogir with a unique chance to experience town panorama from the seaside.

Fishing trip to Island Solta

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Spearfishing & Fishing Experience

Spearfishing & Fishing Experience includes:

  • Private speed boat, fuel and skipper
  • Drive to southern side of Šolta island
  • Snorkeling and swimming at hidden beaches
  • Pole fishing or Spearfishing depending on program – with equipment
  • Traditional lunch made with seasonal ingredients, fish caught during trip and local wine
  • Full day excursion

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Spearfishing is one of the most extraordinary extreme sports, which offers out of this world sensation you will never forget. Join our experienced master for a dive and together we will create a HD underwater video. It doesn’t matter if you have no diving experience, we´ll explain you the basics and take you to the southern rocky side of island Šolta.

Visibility from the surface in these waters during the summer can get up to 35 meters. After the dive we’ll teach you how to prepare fish on the grill, a most common way the locals prepare these delicious sea creatures dipped into olive oil and accompanied by islands wines.

Pasticada and gnocchi cooking class in Split, Croatia

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Pasticada cooking class

Pasticada Cooking Class includes:

  • Ingredients for the cooking class
  • Private cooking lesson in preparing pasticada
  • Lesson in preparing fresh gnocchi
  • Wine with meal (1 bottle per couple)
  • Transfer, and private English speaking guide

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Just like you will eat Turkey for Thanksgiving dinner in USA, you will eat Pasticada on Christmas, weddings and special occasions in Dalmatia. This dish is the ultimate Dalmatian pleasure.

In a region full of fresh seafood, signature dish is a slow cooked, marinated beef served with freshly made gnocchi and delicious red wines from the area.

We will get you to pick the vegetables, cut the beef, simmer it and cook it, get your hands in the dough for some wonderful gnocchi and finally enjoy the fruits of you labor.

Each house has a secret recipe of its own so we will take you in a small village outside of Split where our host makes her magic happen. While the beef is slowly stewing, we will take a tour of her husband’s wine cellar and vineyard to learn about Dalmatian wine.

Making gnocchi at cooking class in Split, Croatia

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Mediterranean Dream Cooking Class

Mediterranean Dream Cooking Class includes:

  • Ingredients for the cooking class
  • Private cooking lesson in preparing indigenous Mediterranean food
  • Strictly fresh, seasonal ingredients
  • Wine with meal (1 bottle per couple)
  • Transfer, and private English speaking guide

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This private cooking class will take you just outside of Split, Croatia. We’ll teach you that great cooking doesn’t need to be complicated or scary. Our hosts will guide through freshest Mediterranean ingredients and spices and show you ways how to prepare a feast without having to be a Master Chef.

Learn how to make fresh pasta with a sauce of freshly picked vegetables. Give it your best to stir with a wonderful wine risotto, learn how to grill a shark (!) steak or just have fun with a big bowl of mussels in red sauce. Upon request we can take you through the fish market, pick out some fresh fish and learn how to grill a whole fish on 400 meters altitude.

Do we even need to mention that everything will be paired to wines that the host produces himself form indigenous varietals.

Sea urchin tasting Split, Croatia

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Diving for Sea Urchins

The Diving for Sea Urchins Excursion includes:

  • Private speed boat, fuel and skipper
  • Drive to southern side of Šolta island
  • Snorkeling and swimming at hidden beaches
  • Dive for sea urchins, pair them to Croatian wine
  • Full day excursion

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One of the most telling signs of clean sea water is a sea urchin, who live in pure waters only. Even in Roman times we can find evidence of hedonistic feasts with their eggs, the caviar of a big sea urchin. Proofs lie in one of the mosaics of Lateran museum in Vatican, Rome.

We’ll take you on a quest for Echinus Esculentus and it’s lickerish descendants. We’ll search for the females as they hold the tasty offspring, so how to recognize females? Well that’s a secret you’ll discover on board, along with a sip of one of the best Croatian white wines, Pošip from the island of Korčula.

Krolo Family Estate Wine Tour

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Krolo Family Estate Wine Tour

The Krolo Family Estate Wine Tour includes:

  • Transport to/from the winery
  • Private Guide and wine expert
  • Meet the winemaker
  • Appetizer plate with cheese, prosciutto and homemade bread
  • Barrel tasting, vineyard and production tour
  • Bottle of each wine from the winery per group (4 different labels)
  • Full dinner with homemade pašticada with gnocchi

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Dalmatia’s hinterland is a place of rich cultural tradition and legend. Tight knit villages where family, hard work, dedication and a passion for food and wine are essential parts of life. In ways similar to the bucolic villages throughout Burgundy, small family estates scattered through the Dalmatian hinterland produce amazing and mysterious wines from indigenous varietals.

After leaving Split, we will drive to the Krolo family estate, just outside the town of Trilj. The Krolo’s have been in the construction business for decades, but their love for fine wine eventually steered them into wine making. All of their love (plus a generous portion of hard earned construction money) is now invested in a small vineyard and winery on the outskirts of Trilj.

During our visit we will meet this wine making family, taste excellent Zinfandel (Crljenak) as well as Cab-Merlot blends. Then we will take a stroll through the vineyard, get to know the traditional Croatian game of “balote” and if you are up for it, enjoy a back roads ride in an old army jeep over the tricky slopes of Strmendolac. Your dinner will be cooked by the winemaker’s wife, and perfectly paired to the flight of Krolo wines. Good conversation and company is a given, and you won’t fine a more genuine experience anywhere in your wine travels!.

Prvi Poljubac – Memories of a First Kiss

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Prvi Poljubac – Memories of a First Kiss

Prvi Poljubac – Memories of a First Kiss

                                           

While in Dalmatia, especially on the islands, you will run into a dessert wine called Prošek. For a while its brand had been compromised by poor legislation that allowed certain companies to produce “sugar water” and call it Prošek. On the flip side Italy and the EU now have a bright idea of banning the name “Prošek”. Excellent, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

So anyway, Prošek is supposed to be a very sweet desert wine made from grape varietals such as Maraština, Bogdanuša, Prč, and Kuč. Grapes are picked then put on mats and dried in the hot Dalmatian sun (it can get silly hot sometimes). A little bit of squeezing the syrup and fun with fermentation and we have a winner.

Prošek, when done right, is a high alcohol, high sugar content miracle that you should try even if you are not a fan of the sweets (like me).

Prvi Poljubac (The First Kiss) is a half-bottle sized orgasm. Sorry blogging puritans, ill wash down my keyboard with holy water later. But it’s true, this Prošek, produced by Ivo Duboković, is loaded with aromas of caramel, coffee, dried apricots….list goes on and on…funny story, once after a bottle of Prvi Poljubac I went to a rock concert and drank a lot of hard stuff you usually drink there (hint: bikers are not fans of Beaujolais), got hammered, then woke up next morning still feeling only the aromas of Prvi Poljubac, nicest hangover ever….

Anyhow, Ivo has a gem and people better take notice. Try to book a tasting at his winery, or find a specialty shop and find this; take it home, open it on your anniversary by the fire and then you can thank me.

You’re welcome.

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