Life in Smokvica village
The life in small village of Smokvica is still all about the land. Here producing best olive oil and famous dalmatian white wine of Posip. Village lies about 30 kilometers away from Korculas old Town center.
Smokvica village, hidden in the foothills of Mala obala and Vela, has around one thousand people. Village of Smokvica is surrounded with hills and it lays on the southern side, it has a mild gentle climate which protects the village from cold and unpleasant northern wind called Bura.
Visit of Smokvica village, Korcula
They found in the old scripts, that Smokvica was mentioned back in the 16th and 15th century. From Croatian mainland all kinds of Slav tribes settled hered to be protected from Ottoman Turks attacks.
In Gradina you can find traces of life, Gradina is one of Smokvica's suburbs, those traces of life are dating back to Illyrian times.
White wines in Smokvica
As mentioned earlier Smokvica is known for its great white wines especially Posip and delicious home made olive oil.
The village has a long tradition of growing and producing olives, olive oil and making wine. On this vineyards a traditional white wines Rukatac and Posip are grown and produced for centuries.
Those wines are known as excellent wines among all the wine lovers, this dry wines are pretty well known. There is a wine factory on the edges of Smokvica which has also a wine production of the village. It is close to Smokvica's local bay called Brna bay.
A large jetty was built by Austro Hungarian empire thats why they've built this wine factory on this area also because of the viinity of the bay Brna.