Vinas Mora "Vino Kaamen II" Red '20

A passion project of Kreso Petrekovic, Vinas Mora is a co-op winery focused on producing natural wines from Primošten, a historic and UNESCO-protected area in coastal Croatia, near the city of Split. Kreso, a former sommelier, wine professional, and importer in New York, found himself in his coastal house in Primošten at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Passionate about the area, its unique terroir, and Babić grape variety, Kreso always advocates drinking wines made by the local farmers who have no or very little commercial success. This zeal is how he found Josipa and Neno Marinov, a local couple producing wine from Babić, “as their elders did 100 years ago, with some improvements,” a few years ago. The pair was selling wines in plastic bottles on the side of the road. Together with Neno, they discovered nearly abandoned winemaking facilities of a local co-op. This site is where most of the growers in the area would sell their grapes. The closing of the co-op would have devast