You could literally buy this variety in pharmacies once because doctors prescribed it as medicine. It was literally prescribed by doctors as a medicine. Macerated for 24 hours, refined with fine lees and old Slavonian oak barrels, this Maraština is complex, serious, full-bodied, distinctly varietal, with a Mediterranean character, but still with the freshness of the Krka River and limestone. In ancient times, there was a tradition of preserving Maraština for over twenty years — a wine that was drunk as a liqueur.