white grape · rare
Škrlet
Moslavina, Croatia
Say it
shker·let
Multiple sources note it sounds like English 'scarlet' with a sh- onset; the škr- consonant cluster is rendered 'shker' for American speakers
On the palate
green applepearquincelemonhayelderflower
How you spot it blind: light-bodied, racy Croatian white with freshly cut hay and low alcohol
The story
First written down · 1854, Zagreb wine exhibition
Cited at an 1854 Zagreb wine exhibition, Škrlet nearly vanished under 20th-century collectivization before Moslavina families—notably Voštinić-Klasnić and Miklaužić—revived it from surviving vineyard rows.
Where it lives
Moslavina, Croatia
Shows up as
still whitesparklingorange
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