The Željko Pecotić Baran Winery from Smokvica on the island of Korčula has been professionally producing bottled wines since 2020. However, long before that, the family has a tradition of winemaking dating back to the 19th century, inheriting not only vineyards but also a love for it from our ancestors. The winery produces white and red wines.
The focus of production is, of course, on the indigenous variety Smokvica, where the first wild vine was found in the 19th century, which is, of course, Pošip, produced in a very limited series of only 5,000 bottles. Pagadebit (Plavac Mali) is also produced in a very limited series of only 600 bottles.
It is important to note that the wines produced are exclusively 100% from grapes from the winery’s own vineyards, currently with a capacity of 10,000 vines of Pošip and 1,000 vines of Pagadebit.
Our Pošip is named “Pod Korita” from the most fertile and protected vineyard (area) in Smokvica, where the only old Korita from the 16th century are located, where the old people drew water before the construction of wells. Korita no longer exist anywhere else in Smokvica and have been exclusively ours for centuries.
Pagadebit (Plavac Mali) got its name when there was no white grape (Pošip) in Smokvica; our ancestors, who were very modest and poor people, did not have anything to pay taxes to the milkmen except for red wine, hence the name Pagadebit, which means paga (payment) debiti (debts), and from there comes the name of our red wine, Pagadebit.