Podunavlje (Danube area) is the easternmost subregion in Croatia, and comprises wine-growing hills of Baranja, Erdut and Srijem. The main feature of Podunavlje is that it is located mainly on plateaus at an altitude of 100 to 200 m characterized by long hot summers with little rainfall. Due to the chosen assortment and ideal climatic and soil conditions, very good wines have been produced here for ages.

Slavonia is the largest and most spacious vineyard producing subregion. It includes wine-growing hills of Đakovo, Slavonski Brod, Nova Gradiška, Požega-Pleternica, Kutjevo, Daruvar, Pakrac, Feričanci, Orahovica-Slatina and Virovitica.The ever-sunny southwest slopes of Dilj, Požeška gora, Krndija, Papuk and Psunj are ideal for viniculture, which is evident from many winemakers from Slavonia being awarded with increasing frequency. The main variety in this subregion is Graševina (Welschriesling).

Central Croatia is a timid area where wide plains intertwine with mountainous vineyard covered areas, woods and medieval fortresses.
Geographically, this area is located in a 100-kilometer radius around the city of Zagreb.

Istria has one of the most favorable positions for viniculture in this part of Europe, which dictates the exceptional quality of Istrian wines. Due to extraordinary ecological diversity, relief with a variety of features, soil composition and diversity of climate, dissimilar quality of Istrian wines from the western, eastern and central Istria is evident. The most prominent Istrian wines are Istrian Malvasia, Teran and Refošk. Kvarner, actually Kvarner bay, is a bay in the northeastern part of the Adriatic Sea between Istria and the Croatian coast. The largest islands in the Kvarner bay are Krk, Cres, Lošinj and Rab. The most familiar variety of that region is žlahtina, white grape of Krk and Vinodol vineyards. Žlahtina is charming, always young, always one-year or maximum two years old. It is an ideal summer wine – with the scent of sea, citrus, green apple, chives and wet marine rocks.

Dalmatia encompasses North Dalmatia, Dalmatian Hinterland, and mid and South Dalmatia. In this part of Croatia, it is registered the largest number of both indigenous and imported varieties, as well as producers of wines with protected geographical origin. A famous red wine Dingač comes from Dalmatia. Besides Dingač, the most eminent wines in Dalmatia are Black Plavac, Plavac and Plavac Mali, Debit, Pošip, Merlot, Babići Plavina, Maraština, Grk, White Vugava, Bogdanuša, and dessert wine Prošek.

Natural sparkling wine develops its own carbon dioxide during natural fermentation in the bottle. The best known sparkling wine is Champagne, named after the Champagne region of France. The name Champagne is today legally protected and reserved exclusively for sparkling wines made by the methodé Champenoise in this French province. Sparkling wines produced in other provinces and countries may be labeled only as sparkling wines (Mousseux or Crémant). Based on the amount of the remainder of unfermented sugar, sparkling wines are produced in a scale from completely dry (ultra brut) to sweet (doux).