Grapes
On our island, the grape harvest usually begins towards the end of August or the beginning of September and is generally finished by the end of September.
For the last two and a half millennia, the peoples of the island of Hvar have been planting vines and growing olives. Since the Greeks set up their system of fields, each one exactly equal, grapes have been grown on the Stari Grad Plain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The best known product of grapes is of course wine.
There are about 300 indigenous varieties of vines, but red grapes of the variety “Plavac mali“ is the most important Dalmatian and Croatian kind.
Our students, accompanied by Natalija Šćepanović, took part in harvesting white grape varieties (“pošip“, “bogdanuša“ and “maraština“) because these ripen early.