Vinas Mora
Vinas Mora is a company founded in the hills overlooking the Adriatic, in the village of Primošten, an ancient fishing village recognized by UNESCO for its unique landscape. The goal? To protect and revive the indigenous Babić grape variety, a symbol of this rugged and fascinating territory.
It all began in 2020, when Kreso Petrekovic, a Croatian sommelier and wine importer in the United States, realized that the surge in tourism was rapidly erasing the last traces of local viticulture. Driven by the desire to safeguard the terroir where he grew up, he enlisted his friend Niko Dukan, who had always been active in wine promotion, and together they created Vinas Mora – a name that in Croatian plays on the meaning of "wines from the sea," in homage to the vineyards' proximity to the coast.
The Babić vines grow between the sea and the mountains, in a land of living stone – "Kaamen," as they call it in Croatia – hard, compact, and barely covered by a thin layer of red clay. It is this very clay, capable of retaining moisture, that allows the vines to survive long months of heat and drought, battered by salty winds and without rain throughout the summer.
The resulting landscape is extraordinary: a network of tiny clos delimited by dry stone walls, each with only two to six plants, shaped by hand over centuries by generations of farmers.
Here, viticulture is still heroic: no machinery, only expert hands working among the rocks. Kreso and Niko have managed to involve over sixty elderly small grape growers, owners of micro-parcels, with whom they collaborate directly in agricultural work, keeping alive a farming culture that was at risk of disappearing. A true intergenerational alliance.
Vinas Mora wines speak authentically of this unique place: not only Babić, but also indigenous varieties like Plavina, Lasin, Debit, and Marastina. All express the identity of a land sculpted by the sun, wind, and salt.
Vinas Mora is a company founded in the hills overlooking the Adriatic, in the village of Primošten, an ancient fishing village recognized by UNESCO for its unique landscape. The goal? To protect and revive the indigenous Babić grape variety, a symbol of this rugged and fascinating territory.
It all began in 2020, when Kreso Petrekovic, a Croatian sommelier and wine importer in the United States, realized that the surge in tourism was rapidly erasing the last traces of local viticulture. Driven by the desire to safeguard the terroir where he grew up, he enlisted his friend Niko Dukan, who had always been active in wine promotion, and together they created Vinas Mora – a name that in Croatian plays on the meaning of "wines from the sea," in homage to the vineyards' proximity to the coast.
The Babić vines grow between the sea and the mountains, in a land of living stone – "Kaamen," as they call it in Croatia – hard, compact, and barely covered by a thin layer of red clay. It is this very clay, capable of retaining moisture, that allows the vines to survive long months of heat and drought, battered by salty winds and without rain throughout the summer.
The resulting landscape is extraordinary: a network of tiny clos delimited by dry stone walls, each with only two to six plants, shaped by hand over centuries by generations of farmers.
Here, viticulture is still heroic: no machinery, only expert hands working among the rocks. Kreso and Niko have managed to involve over sixty elderly small grape growers, owners of micro-parcels, with whom they collaborate directly in agricultural work, keeping alive a farming culture that was at risk of disappearing. A true intergenerational alliance.
Vinas Mora wines speak authentically of this unique place: not only Babić, but also indigenous varieties like Plavina, Lasin, Debit, and Marastina. All express the identity of a land sculpted by the sun, wind, and salt.
