Ep 595: Croatian Wine Revisited -- An Overview and Conversation with Patron and Listener Bevis Sydney

Wine for Normal People

Arts, Food

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This show is a refresh of Episode 371 with a new take!

In October of 2025, I visited Croatia on a scouting trip with my friend Brett from Walk & Wine Croatia (check them out and take a trip with them! Marija and Barişa are the best guides!) to see if there was a possibility of me hosting a patron trip there! It was a fantastic trip and I learned so much about the country and the wines.

Photo: View from Rizman Winery. Credit: WFNP

Just two weeks before I went, Patron, listener, wine educator, previous pod guest cohost (Ep 522 -- the Wine Movie Podcast), Bevis Sydney, visited to Croatia on a family holiday. He and I compared notes and they were nearly identical. I enlisted his help to do this show as a look into our shared perceptions -- great and less great.

I cover all the basics in a brief review on the country and then Bevis and I do a deep dive into the main grapes of Dalmatia and beyond. We come to the conclusion that the whites Grk and Poşip are the best wines we tasted, and the red Babiç has some potential.

Photo: Kastel Sikuli is a great winery in Dalmatia. Credit: WFNP

Here are the links to things we reference:

Walk & Wine Croatia (check them out and take a trip with them!)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:15.9	I'm your host, Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book, and Certified Wine Dork.
0:21.8	Join me as I hit record on this conversation with a friend in the wine industry.
0:26.2	This and all shows with guests are informal, but educational discussions between passionate
0:30.9	wine friends.
0:32.2	All guests are personal friends or friends of friends in wine, not strangers.
0:36.2	And like any conversation between friends, we're going to talk back and forth, interrupt
0:40.4	each other, laugh, have fun, debate, tough questions, voice opinions.
0:45.0	Most of all, enjoy sharing our time together and with you.
0:48.1	If you're in, pour yourself a glass, pull up a chair, and join us for this great chat.
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1:18.9	details. We are here with Bevis, Sydney, who many of you who are patrons know and many of you who listen to the movie podcast. And I would like to give another push for drops of God. A lot of you guys saw that I got the screener for it. Season two, amazing, Bevis, you have to, is it released yet in the UK? Yeah, it's being released week by week. So I'm up to episode two. So if you, if you're further on, these no spoilers, but yeah, I'm not going to tell you, but it's being released week by week. So I'm up to episode two. So if you're further on,
1:45.3	please no spoilers. But yeah, I'm not going to tell you. But it's good. It's really,
1:49.1	really good. Yeah. Yep. But anyway, we are here because just by pure chance, Bevis and I wound
1:56.2	up in Croatia at around the same time. And he sent me all of these thoughts about Croatia. And then I went
2:04.4	and the thoughts were exactly the same. So I thought it might be time to update the Croatia
2:12.2	podcast. And as Bevis and I were just talking about before we hit record, it's not changed very much
2:18.2	since I did that podcast many years ago.
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