Domaine BIBICh

Overview & Identity

Domaine BIBICh is a family-owned boutique winery located in Plastovo, near Skradin in the Dalmatian region of Croatia. The Bibich family’s roots in the area date back centuries, and the winery has become known for revitalizing local indigenous varieties through low-intervention and expressive winemaking.

Under the current leadership of Alen Bibić (and increasingly his son Filip), the estate produces a core line of traditional wines and a parallel “Domaine BIBICh” project that emphasizes lighter, more immediate styles. The Domaine line offers a more playful, personality-infused expression of varietals and terroir.

Vineyards & Terroir

• The estate controls around 20+ hectares of vineyard land. Some is family-owned, while additional fruit comes via trusted co-operative growers.

• Vineyards are situated on karstic, limestone and clay soils, in the Plastovo / Promina micro-regions, with altitudes around ~250 meters. The climate is strongly Mediterranean, with hot, dry days and cooling breezes at night, allowing retention of acidity and development of minerality.

• The Bibich team works with minimal viticultural intervention: organic or biodynamic practices, limited use of chemicals, and hand harvesting wherever feasible.

• The native local varieties cultivated include Debit (white), Babić, Plavina, Lasin, along with experimental plantings of Syrah in select parcels.

Winemaking & Cellar Practices

• Fermentation is conducted spontaneously, relying on native yeasts rather than inoculation.

• For white varietals like Debit, short maceration is sometimes employed; for more textured styles, extended skin contact (up to 30 days in some orange/amber wines) is used before pressing.

• Aging regimes vary by cuvée: some wines rest in neutral oak, amphorae, or stainless steel with lees contact to build texture.

• Red wines are handled gently, with moderate extraction, and aged in neutral or used wood to preserve varietal purity and terroir character.

• The wines are bottled unfined and unfiltered when possible, and sulfur additions are kept to low levels, used sparingly mainly at bottling to ensure stability.

Production & Style

• Annual production is limited, emphasizing quality, site specificity, and artisanal control.

• The wines tend toward elegant, transparent, mineral-forward profiles rather than high-extraction or heavy styles.

• Signature Domaine BIBICh wines include lighter expressions of Debit, Plavina, and field blends of Plavina / Lasin / Babić, often with modest alcohol, bright acidity, and textural finesse.

• The standard (core) line includes richer, more complex wines such as Bas de Bas (Syrah/Merlot/Sauvignon), Crno(Syrah + Plavina), and estate expressions of local reds.