Božo Metković's Graševina from the village of Molunat in Konavle, south of Dubrovnik, won 92 points out of 100 at the 2019 Kutjevo Graševina Festival, which is an exceptional rating for young wines. It was followed in that category by Graševina De Gotho and Graševina Turković from the Kutjevo winery, with 88 points. The Dubrovnik Graševina had 15.3 percent alcohol, which is high even for Dalmatian red wines like Plavac. Metković managed to retain 5.7 grams of acid per liter, which helps to keep the high alcohol content from being too strong in the taste, or so that the wine does not overheat the palate.
This was not his first Graševina. In previous years, he made it differently because, he says, he needed a lighter wine to offer in the summer at the family restaurant Monika in Molunat and at the Malvasija wine bar in Dubrovnik. At the end of last summer, the Graševina grapes looked nice, so he decided to leave them on the vine longer. And he didn't choose that variety by chance.
They often wrote that I planted Graševina because I couldn't buy seedlings of other varieties, but that's not true. And I wasn't the first to grow it in Konavle either. Friends had it before the war, but very little. It already showed back then that it could produce very good wine here too. After I planted the first 500 vines, I thought about expanding that plantation, but Malvasia Dubrovnik seedlings appeared, so I switched to our old variety, said Metković at the time, who, unfortunately, left us on November 9, 2022 after a long and serious illness.
