Croatian Wines
The wines of Croatia 2025
by Miquel Hudin | 13-05-2025
“No alarms and no surprises.” It’s not often that you get to use a Radiohead lyric in a wine report, but I can’t think of a better way to summarize the state of wine in... more »
Hudin Top 100 Wines 2024
by Editorial | 10-12-2024
The Hudin Top 100 - 2024 is out now! To date, 2024 is a year that saw reviews and coverage at their highest levels with nearly 4,000 wines reviewed from Spain, France, and Eastern Europe... more »
Drinking Well, Beyond Dubrovnik
by Miquel Hudin | 26-06-2024
An ongoing series that looks at how to enjoy a drink in less obvious and at times, exotic destinations for the European or North American traveler. It’s quite an experience to watch a travel destination... more »
The wines of Croatia 2024
by Miquel Hudin | 20-03-2024
Personally, it’s a point of pride for me to say that my history with Croatian wines goes back some two decades now. There were my first tastes of the Dalmatian red variety, Plavac Mali at... more »
Food Through Wine: Yezi, Zagreb, Croatia
by Miquel Hudin | 18-03-2024
A regular series that reviews dining through the lens of wine both good… and bad. There is that moment when you’re on the wrong side of 40 when you walk into a restaurant and think,... more »
Mike Grgich / Miljenko Grgić
by Miquel Hudin | 18-12-2023
Two notable humans reached a century of existence this year, only to then depart from this crazy world. But, despite this tenuous link of both living to 100 years of age, I would however posit... more »
Talking about Pinot at Modri les Noirs 2023
by Miquel Hudin | 08-11-2023
Dominatrix or master, whatever you want to call the relationship, when it comes to Pinot Noir, it’s very one-sided as this finicky grape variety owns the winemaker–he or she never, ever owns it. While there... more »
Top Shelf: Crvik – Lorko
by Miquel Hudin | 11-09-2023
A series simply looking at the best of the best in wine. When I visited Petar Crvik in his family winery at the bottom of Dalmacija for the Malvasija Dubrovačka article, we naturally took advantage... more »
The ‘Jesus’ wine barrel, the largest in the world
by Miquel Hudin | 27-07-2023
Woe be the sommelier student who must remember the names of all the various bottle sizes lest they bring a diner a three liter Jeroboam of Moët et Chandon when in fact it was the... more »
Graševina & the wines of Slavonija, Croatia
by Miquel Hudin | 10-07-2023
Being formed of several old realms, the modern state of Croatia is a bit of a curious shape. It’s impossible to look at a map and not think otherwise as there are these two large... more »