Wine & Lavender

Hvar town keeps you close to the waterfront and its evening buzz, lively and social. A base among the vineyards and hill villages trades that for stillness, cellar visits at the door and the scent of lavender on the breeze. For this slower, table-led journey, we usually favour the interior and its calm.

Yes. Your advisor arranges for you to taste the island's Plavac Mali with the grower, among the stone-terraced vines. Our counsel is to taste with the growers themselves, because the island's best wines rarely leave it. Mornings on this journey belong to the hills, where the vines climb their old stone terraces, and a base among the vineyards puts cellar visits at your door.

Yes, easily. The coves are close even from the hills, so we suggest keeping your afternoons free for the sea. The rhythm of this journey is built around it: mornings in the vineyards and lavender hills, a long shaded table at midday, then late afternoons easing back toward the water for a swim before an unhurried island dinner.

Yes. Ask us, and we will arrange a private table at a family konoba away from the harbour. Expect a long island table of just-caught fish, olive oil and local wine. To follow that olive oil to its source, we can also arrange a visit to a family press, where you trace the olive from grove to green oil.

We suggest 4-6 days, enough to travel without rushing. Away from the harbour, Hvar slows to the pace of the growing season: mornings for the hills, the stone-terraced vines and the lavender stretching toward the sea; the middle of the day for a long, shaded table; late afternoons for a swim before an unhurried island dinner. Those days leave room to taste with the growers, visit a family press and keep afternoons free for the coves. Your advisor tunes the length to your calendar and pace.

As a private, tailored journey it starts from roughly US$10,000 per traveler (double occupancy) and scales with your dates, party and level of privacy — a starting point, never a fixed package price. Your advisor confirms the figure once the itinerary is tailored.

Late May through September, when the Adriatic is warm, the light is long and the islands are at their most alive before the autumn quiet returns. For the lavender at its fullest, come in June or early July, when the fields of the interior are in full purple. Through the season, the warm sea makes afternoon swims in the nearby coves part of the rhythm. Your advisor times it to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.

Yes. On Wine & Lavender you can walk the lavender hills of Hvar's interior, arranged privately and shaped to you. For the fields in full purple, come in June or early July, when the lavender is at its fullest. Mornings on this journey belong to the hills, with the lavender stretching toward the sea, so a walk fits naturally before a long, shaded table at midday.

Yes. Hvar & the Islands sits within two coastlines of walled cities, wine-terraced islands and hidden coves, all close enough to weave into a single seamless journey by water. Your Forest Travel advisor designs the journey end to end, so the slow vineyard and lavender days on Hvar can be linked with the wider coast of Croatia and Montenegro, timed to the light, the crowds and your own calendar.

Yes. On Wine & Lavender, a private visit to a family press on Hvar lets you follow the olive from grove to green oil. It pairs well with the island's long table of just-caught fish, olive oil and local wine, and with mornings in the hills among the old stone terraces, away from the harbour, where Hvar slows to the pace of the growing season.

Yes, above all beyond the harbour. Hvar Town is the terraces and the evening buzz; twenty minutes away, Stari Grad sits beside the UNESCO-listed Stari Grad Plain, where Plavac Mali has been grown inside the same Greek field divisions for twenty-four centuries. The lavender flowers on the terraces along the island's spine from late June into July, and the Pakleni coves lie fifteen minutes off Hvar Town by boat. Wine & Lavender runs four to six days.