Three days Serbian wine tour

Erdevik vineyards

Erdevik winery

Erdevik winery

Mackov podrum winery

Returns to the east and climbs along the slopes of Fruska Gora and go to Irig, place known for its vineyards from the time of the Roman Empire. We're going to visit the uncrowned king of Serbian Gewurztraminer At the beginning of this century Mr. Sava Jojic (nickname Macak = Tomcat ) decided to that family tradition of grapes and wine production held up to the professional level and Mackov podrum winery works since 2004. The capacity of the winery is 200,000 liters a year, and approximate annual production is 120,000 bottles of wine. Tomcat cellar has got 32 hectares of vineyards, and all the grapes used for the wine like as Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Merlot, Pinot noir, Cabernet franc, Sauvignon blanc, Portugieser comes only and exclusively from these vineyards. We'll try most of that with a lunch of local specialties.

Mr Sava Jojic, proud owner

Mackov podrum winery

Mackov podrum vineyards

Brindza winery

After lunch continue the journey and go to Backa Topola., the Brindza winery, where will be the place of our vacation and the first nights on our wine route. It is the new modern winery opened few years ago. The winery is situated on the family estate with restaurant, rooms and other facilities. Vineyards are located about 15 km away from the cellar and at around 12 hectares of vineyards grow mostly white grape varieties Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Blanc, Rhine Riesling, Traminer, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, and wine production is 40,000 liters per year. As part of the winery is a nice restaurant offering local and international dishes in which we will enjoy to dinner local specialties paired with wines from this winery.

Brindza winery, proud owner

Brindza winery

Brindza vineyards

DiBonis winery

After breakfast we continue our journey to the north, to the Palic lake, near to the Hungarian border . Mr. Laslo Boni, the founder of DiBonis winery is the 4 th generation of winemakers in his family. The Winery is famous in Serbia for being the first Winery planting Shiraz Grape in Serbia and the first Winery making a wine out of it. The DiBonis Dishiraz won many awards and recognitions, the latest was the Comedned title from the 2013 Decanter Awards in London, the UK. Ecept Shiraz, on about 20 hectares of vineyards grow and Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Mucat Ottonel.The DiBonis Winery is also very well known for its excellent fruit brandies called rakija in serbian language and palinka in Hungarian language. All the prestigious international and local awards received, made the DiBonis one of the most awarded fruit brandy maker of the region. We'll try a part of all that with gastronomical specialties typical for this area.

DiBonis vineyards

DiBonis winery

Mr Laslo Boni, proud owner

Zvonko Bogdan winery

The second winery in our route is "Zvonko Bogdan"in Palic (Subotica) one of the Top 5 Serbian winery. It is the new modern winery, started in 2008 . From the beginning, their aim is to produce top-quality wines that bear the stamp of the region from which they come, by combining the specificity and tradition of Palic vineyards with the latest French technology. Wines of Zvonko Bogdan Winery are produced exclusively from grapes-cultivated and matured in its vineyards. They own 56 hectares of vineyards on three different plots and on it grow Sauvignon blanc, Pinot blanc, Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay and Muscat yellow , Merlot, Frankish, Cabernet franc and Cabernet Sauvignon. Such an attitude about the quality production is the reason why the wines of this winery has won numerous awards at Decanter, San Francisco IWC, Concours Mondia, Japan Wine Challenge, AWC Wiena ... Last year, the winery was awarded the regional award "White Cluster" as the most successful Serbian wineries in wine tourism for the year 2016. During the visit you will see why..

Zvonko Bogdan winery

Proud owner, Zvonko Bogdan with guests

Zvonko Bogdan winery

Vinski dvor winery

Finaly, third winary in our daily route and the place of our vacation and the second nights on our wine route is Vinski dvor winery. This is a family company which dates back to 1856. Today the winery owns about 7 hectares of grapes where grows up Chardonnay, Italian Riesling, Souvignon Blanc, Gray Burgundac, Cersegi fuszeres, Irsai Oliver, Black Burgundac, Merlot, Cabernet Souvignon and Portogiezer. During all these years, grape and wines were made on a traditional way. In 2002 it was the first winery in Serbia which start a wine tourism concept, which has been improved year by year . As part of the winery is a nice restaurant where we will enjoy local food and wine testing.

Vinski dvor winery

Vinski dvor winery

Vinski dvor winery

Tonkovic Winery

After breakfast we continue our journey and return to the south. First we will go to the small charming Tonkovic Heritage Winery, specific because they make wine from only one grape variety Kadarka. Continuing the vision of Mr Ignacije Tonkovic, a former diplomat and a legend of the Vojvodina public scene, in a closely collaborates with a series of experts from a viticulture professor from Hungary to the top winemakers from Rioja, they produce a different Kadarka wines (two red and one rose) and all are excellent. We will try them all in a short visit to the winery.

Tonkovic winery

Tonkovic vineyards

Proud owner, Mr.Tonkovic

Benesik-Veselinovic winery

Second winery in our route is Benisek-Veselinovic winery. It is cooperative of two families which together produce wine and excellent fruit brandy. On four hectares grow Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Probus, Chardonnay and Pinot Blanc, that produce 30,000 liters of wine , 3000 bottles of sweet Bermet. and a certain amount of special grape brandy. We'll try it all with lunch with Srem delicacies (goulash, cheese, homemade bread.) in the garden of their taste object in one of the oldest houses in the Sremski Karlovci.

Owner- Mr Veselinovic with guests

Benesik-Veselinovic winery

Benesik-Veselinovic winery

Acumincum winery

Third winery is Acumincum winery on the banks of the Danube river, in Stari Slankamen village. It is new (2011)  modern  family winery but very charming because the building in which the winery is located  has an interesting history. in the 16th century was a Turkish bath (hamam), in the 18th century Rectory, and later palaces of local landowner. The remains of a Turkish bath can be seen in addition to  the wine tasting rooms. At about three hectares of vineyards were planted Shiraz, Pinot Noir, Viogner and Lemberger, of which is produced 20,000 liters of  very quality wine every year.

Acumincum winery

Acumincum winery ..

Acumincum winery

Mileta Popovic – Your Serbian Wine Guide

Mileta Popovic and his wife Veta are wine enthusiasts based in Belgrade, Serbia. Mileta is local wine experts and great communicators in English, specialised in the Serbia wines and food stuffs. He is also the author of the popular blog Serbian Wine Guide
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