Farewell, Alen Bibić

In what is sad news, Dalmatian winemaker, Alen Bibić of his eponymous Bibich Winery has died this week at the age of 53. This comes shortly after the recent Vino Dalmacije fair in Split where they were honoring another Croatian winemaker, Zlatan Plenković who died 10 years previously. Both Plenković and Bibić played important roles in the evolution of winemaking for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. Plenković was one of the first to pull the region out of the doldrums left by the collapse of the Yugoslavian winemaking regime. Bibić […]