Postup is a

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n premium quality

red wine Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties. The color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines. The juice from most purple grap ...

produced of the plavac Mali crni grape variety in a limited homonymous area of the

Pelješac Pelješac (; Chakavian: ; it, Sabbioncello) is a peninsula in southern Dalmatia in Croatia. The peninsula is part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and is the second largest peninsula in Croatia. From the isthmus that begins at Ston, to the top o ...

subregion of the Middle and South

Dalmatia Dalmatia (; hr, Dalmacija ; it, Dalmazia; see #Name, names in other languages) is one of the four historical region, historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria. Dalmatia is a narrow belt of the east shore of ...

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. At about 50 ha of the locality

Postup Postup is wine growing region on Croatia's Pelješac peninsula just to the east of Orebić. It takes its name from the small village that sits at the center of it. The main grape harvested in Postup is Plavac Mali and, like the grapes from the ...

, in a good year it is possible to produce about 34,000-40,000 t of grapes (the harvest yield being at most 60%), that is about 2,400 hl of the premium wine postup. In fact, a good year is one when due to the specific microclimatic conditions a part of the grapes of the variety plavac Mali crni grown at this locality (as well as at the locality called

Dingač Dingač is a wine growing region on the Pelješac peninsula in the region of Dalmatia, Croatia. Situated on the southwestern facing slope of the Zabrada mountains between the small villages of Trstenik and Podobuče, it is a highly regarded ar ...

) over-ripe so that there are about 30% of dry berries, increasing the sugar content and making conditions to produce many other ingredients of importance for the quality of the future wine. Postup wine is characterized by a high content of

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(often over 14% vol.) and dry extract (over 30 g/L). The wine has a purple - dark red color with blue reflections, as well as a pleasant and unique fragrance and bouquet. It has always been highly priced at the market and used to be sold as much as four times more expensive than other Dalmatian red wines (apart from

dingač Dingač is a wine growing region on the Pelješac peninsula in the region of Dalmatia, Croatia. Situated on the southwestern facing slope of the Zabrada mountains between the small villages of Trstenik and Podobuče, it is a highly regarded ar ...

, a wine postup is difficult to distinguish from). Postup is classified as the highest standard recognized by the Croatian law - " Vrhunsko Vino" ("''Premium Quality Wine''"). It was the second wine (after dingač) protected as "Premium Quality" (1967).

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