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and olives, has been maintained since Greek times Maraština, an indigenous Dalmatian grape variety
to the present. that can be found along the entire coastline. While
Thanks to dry, chalky soils and long, sunny days, award-winning and successful Duboković has no
high-quality wineries offering a range of wines plans for expansion. “It’s very hard to attract
specific to the island have sprung up in the last workers. There is no social life in winter. If you
few decades. “Under communism, we weren’t miss the 4.30pm ferry, you’re stuck until the next
allowed to make our own wines”, said Ivo day. I call Hvar ‘my beautiful prison’”.
Duboković who runs tastings in the family wine Solitude of a different kind is that of the nuns at
cellar on the outskirts of Jelsa. “All the grapes had the Benedictine Convent in Hvar town. The few
to be sold to the cooperative so our winery is only women never go out and spend much of their time
thirty years old”. A local specialty is the orange, making agave lace according to the motto “ora et
skin-contact wine Moja M which is 100% labora” (pray and work). The convent was

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