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Vinarija Josić

Name: Vinarija Josić
Address: Planina 194, 31307 Zmajevac, Zmajevac, HR
Telephone: +385 31 734 410
Price range: $$

Zmajevac, Croatia

Winery and restaurant in Zmajevac, on the slope of Banova kosa. In 1999 the Josić family bought a cellar from 1935 together with old vines, and the tasting room still sits in that cellar. The platter Baranjske strasti, for two, carries homemade smoked ham, homemade kulen, bacon, cracklings, a smoked sausage, fresh cow's cheese, švargla, hot peppers and pickles, and the sommelier pairs it with Graševina. Another dish stuffs turkey with kulen and cheese. Gault&Millau Croatia gives the restaurant four toques in its 2026 guide. The kulen is homemade; the menu does not claim the Baranjski PGI.

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Sausages served here

Baranjski Kulen

Baranja, Croatia

An oval dry sausage from the Croatian part of Baranja, between the Danube and the lower Drava, protected as an EU geographical indication since 2015. Lean pork, at least 80% of it ham and loin, with 10% fat, seasoned with salt, sweet and hot paprika, garlic and white pepper. The casing is the pig's caecum, the katica, and nothing else is allowed. Each kulen weighs at least 0.8 kg. The specification calls the taste mildly hot, led by cold smoke, with garlic and pepper kept in the background. The white pepper is what sets it apart from kulen made elsewhere in the region.

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