Decanter UK – March 2026 – Decanter UK

Shared mindsets, geologies and winemaking cultures make for an intriguing corner of the wine world, full of local pride and individual character or any wine region to be great, it needs a simple name. Just look at Bordeaux. Given its 65 appellations, having this one name is quite convenient as trying to remember all of them, save for a few of the most famous, is a tedious proposition.

The same can be said for Burgundy, the Rhône, Napa or a multitude of famous regions the world over. This is what makes the proposition of the ‘North Adriatic’ so appealing. It’s a convenient shorthand for not just a very wide group of appellations, but also parts of three different countries, including northeast Italy and the western parts of Slovenia and Croatia.

When Paul Balke, author of the book North Adriatic (£40 Académie du Vin Library, 2020), contacted me about a trip he was planning that grouped all of these regions into one much more digestible whole, I thought it a splendid idea. I’ve been tasting them individually for nearly two decades and hadn’t really considered the fact that they are, to any wine drinker, far more comprehensible via this collective nomenclature. While at first glance it may appear that this spaghetti of borders, rivers and small mountains has no cohesion, there are several aspects that bind it all together.

And, given that Croatia entered into the Schengen and Eurozone at the start of 2023, imagining that there is any kind of separation at all seems more artificial than the separation that was. Miquel Hudin is a widely published and awarded wine writer and judge. Originally from California, he is now based in Catalonia and writes exclusively about the wines of southern Europe. He is founder of the Vinologue series of wine books and the wine portal hudin.com First and most important is the Italianate nature to everything.

In ancient history this was all Roman, and in later history it was all Venetian. It’s only during the last century that things have become a great deal more complicated, especially after World War II. Despite this, almost everyone who isn’t Italian (namely Slovenes and Croats) does also speak Italian.

While this shared language and history is what we see on the surface, below there’s a vast stretch of flysch (charmingly known locally as ponca/opoka in Italian/Slovenian), a sedimentary mix of sandstone and marl that links the geology of the region. Linked by separation This novel new way to look at the region essentially has Trieste in Italy’s far northeast as its focus point and city, with Venice serving as the western flank and Rijeka, Croatia, as the eastern (see map, p74).

It would be easy to get bogged down in finite details across these various lands, of which there are 15 zones.

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