The Stjepan Bulić recognition, for lifetime contribution to the advancement of viticulture, winemaking and the Sabatina, was awarded to Prof. Dr. Jasminka Karoglan Kontić, tenured full professor at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Zagreb. She has taken part in more than 30 national and international scientific conferences and is the author or co-author of numerous scientific papers and seven books, two of which are university textbooks. For the books Vinova loza – ampelografija, ekologija i oplemenjivanje (The Grapevine: Ampelography, Ecology and Breeding) and Zelena knjiga: Hrvatske izvorne sorte vinove loze (The Green Book: Croatia’s Native Grapevine Varieties) she received the award of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine. 
Frano Vlašić, a graduate agronomist, received the Stanko Ožanić recognition for lifetime contribution to the advancement of winemaking and the Sabatina. He spent almost his entire working life in the cooperative movement, serving for many years as manager of the Stoviš Agricultural Cooperative of Ston. 
Mate Violić the Younger is said to have been raised among the vines, for he belongs to the well-known winegrowing Violić Matuško family of Potomje. He studied and graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb, majoring in viticulture, fruit-growing and winemaking. On finishing his studies he did not stay in Zagreb, as many of his colleagues did, but returned to Pelješac and works at the family winery Matuško vina. He received the Zlatan Plenković recognition for young winegrower and winemaker.
Hrvoje Baković graduated in mechanical engineering in Zagreb in 1993. Unable to find work, he went to New Zealand, where he worked for two years. On his return he was among the first on Brač to venture, as a private producer, into making and bottling wine under his own label, and today he is one of the most important winemakers on the island. He has five hectares of vineyards planted with various varieties, Plavac predominating at 70 percent. He produces around 30,000 bottles a year.
Ivica Vlahović is the longtime manager of the Bol Agricultural Cooperative on the island of Brač, which in its own distinctive way, despite the skeptics, encouraged the development of agriculture, and of viticulture in particular, as well as of the cooperative movement on the island. For his successful work he received the Recognition to a Cooperative Worker, awarded by the Croatian Agricultural Cooperative Alliance. The cooperative gave its members loans for establishing land, irrigation and the like, which raised the value of produce, while the island’s area under vine grew considerably. After many years of work in the winery and the cooperative, Vlahović is retiring.
Gospodarski list is a Croatian journal published since 1842, and received the Golden Quill of the Sabatina for its media promotion of viticulture, winemaking and the Sabatina. Over nearly two centuries it has guided Croatian agriculture in professional, economic and social terms. 
The Golden Amphora of the Sabatina, awarded by the Croatian Association of Wine Towns for contribution to the development of viticulture and winemaking, went to the Jako vino winery of Bol. In the historic building of the first Dalmatian wine cooperative in Bol, the company began, through renovation and refurbishment, to build the Stina brand, which has become synonymous with excellent and authentic Dalmatian wines. Among its wines, those from Pošip and Plavac Mali from the outstanding site by the Pustinja Stipančić hermitage stand out, as does the one from Vugava, which they have brought back to Brač.
Vinski klub congratulates all the recipients!
07.11.2025.
