Bukara is a traditional Dalmatian wine jug, made exclusively from spruce wood. It has a specific, pleasant smell and is known for its antiseptic and antibacterial properties. <\/b><\/p>\n
Old legends say that even poor wine will have a good flavour in the bukara, because of the spruce. Bukara has become a symbol for the local wines and some of the good, old and simpler times still live on in the collective consciousness thanks to the poets who used the bukara as a poetic motif just as often as they referred to wine or pretty girls.<\/p>\n
The secret is in the medicinal spruce<\/strong><\/p>\n Traditionally, the bukara has a volume of at least half a litre, and can often contain a litre or more, so that it often served as a common vessel for wine that was passed around from person to person. Due to its antibacterial properties, there was no fear of infection. Only later were smaller bukara of several decilitres made, for \u201cpersonal\u201d use.<\/p>\n The bukara is made only of spruce wood, and the traditional process of handmaking these vessels was a long and complex one. The wood was first cut and left to dry, which could sometimes take longer than a year, and only then would be suitable for further processing. Spruce has an intensive aroma, and so the bukara also serves as an ornament: the entire house is filed with the fragrance, and it can last forever. However, caution: if you decide to use the spruce wood once, you mustn\u2019t stop, as the wood absorbs the liquid and expands. When it is not used for a long time, the wood dries out and cracks, and needs to be reassembled.<\/p>\n Bukara or susak?<\/strong><\/p>\n In the areas inland of \u0160ibenik, you will also often hear that such a wooden vessel for wine is also called a \u2013 susak. Are these synonyms or is there a difference? And if so, what is it? The susak and bukara are virtually synonyms, however, they do differ slightly in their appearance: the bukara has a wider top and narrows towards the base, while the susak is the opposite, it is narrow at the top and widens towards the base. Furthermore, some say that the susak is hugged (held by wrapping the hand around the glass), while the bukara is held by the handle. In January 2025, the Ministry of Culture and Media issued a supplementary declaration clarifying that in areas such as the Bukovica and Ravni Kotari regions, a wooden vessel for drinking defined as a \u201csusak\u201d can also be called a \u201cbukara\u201d, meaning that two names exist for the vessel of the same shape \u2013 bukara and susak.<\/p>\n At the end of October 2023, the Expert Committee for Determining the Status of Cultural Heritage, based on the presented documentation and stated facts, as well as the recommendation of the Committee for Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, confirmed that the art of making susak in Drni\u0161 qualifies as intangible cultural heritage, as defined by the Law on the Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Bukara is a traditional Dalmatian wine jug, made exclusively from spruce wood. It has a specific, pleasant smell and is known for its antiseptic and antibacterial properties.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"parent":118,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-668","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/npkrka.hr\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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