Vinoplod Jakov Prošek dessert wine

Jakov is a unique dessert wine made from the indigenous Croatian grapes Debit, Maraština and Trbljan. In Croatia, this wine, which has been made for centuries, is called Prošek.

Pronounciartion: Winóplòd Jákòw Pròsjèk
Winery: Vinarija Vinoplod
Region: Šibenik, North Dalmatia
Grape: Debit, Maraština, Trbljan (all white grapes)
Vintage: 2015
Taste: This dessert wine is characterized by a pleasant aroma and a harmonious taste with lots of raisins, walnuts, figs and apricots. It is high in residual sugars, but the wine still has nice acidity. It is a full-bodied wine with a wonderful oily mouthfeel and a long finish.
Serve with: The recognizable sweet taste and an abundance of aroma make this wine an ideal choice with sweet desserts, chocolate or cookies and it is also delicious with an ice cube with coffee or as an aperitif. The wine can also be used with all kinds of savoury dishes such as fish dishes and pâté. It can also be a surprising alternative for port lovers.
Ideal serving temperature: Prošek is best chilled and can even be drunk with a cube of ice.
Alcohol percentage: 14.5%.
Residual sugar: 110 g / L
Volume: 0.75 liters
Vinification: Traditionally, Prošek is made according to the pasito method in which the grapes are late harvested and dried on straw mats before making wine. In order to keep the process affordable and stable, Jakov was used by fermenting concentrated (evaporated) must.
Additional information: After opening, the bottle can be kept for at least one or two years.Prošek is the most famous Croatian dessert wine. Despite its name, it has nothing to do with Italian Prosecco, which is a sparkling wine. There are no similarities between the products, either with regard to the production method, style or the grapes used, nor is there any relationship between the origin of the two names.
Nevertheless, after Croatia's accession to the EU, it was decided that the wine should no longer be called Prošek because the name reminds too much of Prosecco. Therefore, the name was changed to Jakov. Obviously, it is just Prošek as everyone knows it in Croatia.

Prošek can be compared to the Italian dessert wine Vino Santo (holy wine). These are straw wines, as they are often produced by drying the freshly harvested grapes on reed mats.

This is the same production method in Croatia. Several grapes are allowed for the production of Prošek such as the white Bogdanuša, Marastina, or Vugava (all native Croatian white grapes) and even the blue Plavac Mali. Jakov is made from three white native grapes Debit, Maraština, Trbljan.

Prošek is a sweet dessert wine, traditionally from Dalmatia. Good quality Prošek is usually much more expensive than other wines due to the average consumption of seven times more grapes to make the same amount of wine.