Step into royal shoes, enjoy the breathtaking nature of Central Serbia and taste remarkable wines in the Serbian Tuscany.
Petar’s house & The Royal cellar
The oldest archive wines in Serbia. Petar’s house nowadays is a museum gallery.
Royal cellar has two underground floors with constant temperature of 8 degrees Centigrade and 99 barrels of four thousand liters each. This cellar keeps some archive wines made of domestic grape sorts, so they are the oldest in Serbia.
Winery Aleksandrovic
Original blend composition from 1932.
With 75 hectares of vineyards and annual production of 300,000 bottles, most treasured wine of the winery Aleksandrovic is a white wine ‘Trijumf’ (Triumph), produced in accordance with the original blend composition from 1932. They received the original recipe for Trijumf from the royal cellar master Zivan Tadic who was the winemaker of the Karadjordjevic royal house before the World War Two. Trijumf was served at a few European royal courts at that time.
Winery Arsenijevic
Beside winery Aleksandrovic, beautiful village of Vinca offers winery Arsenijevic. This winery has a family tradition in which the generations involved in growing vines and making quality wines, continuing the young generations combination of experience and modern technology. Today wine cellar Arsenijevic is producing their wines using about 11 hectares of vineyards, planted highquality sorts of grapes, Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Hamburg.
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Departure from Belgrade by schedule. |
| 12.15 | Arrival in Topola and Oplenac. Sightseeing tour. Visit to the Endowment of King Petar I which encompasses the church of St. George, the dynastic tomb of the Karadjordjevic family, Petar’s house and the Royal cellar. The church of Saint George on Oplenac dominates the landscape of this part of Sumadija. It is the five-dome church built in the Serbian-Byzantine style, out of famous white marble from the nearby Vencac Mountain. It was built as the temple and mausoleum of the Karadjordjevic dynasty and its interior is decorated with mosaics, made from 40 million pieces in 15 thousands shades of colors.The endowment also includes Petar’s house, which is nowadays a museum-gallery, with the thematic exhibition related to the Karadjordjevic dynasty and the royal cellar that has two underground floors with constant temperature of 8 degrees Centigrade, and 99 barrels of four thousand liters each. This cellar keeps some archive wines made of domestic grape sorts, so they are the oldest ones that can be found in Serbia. |
| 13.00 | Departure to Vinca. Visit to the winery Aleksandrovic. With 75 hectares of vineyards and annual production of 300,000 bottles, most treasured wine of the winery is a white wine “Trijumf” (Triumph), produced in accordance with the original blend composition from 1932. They received the original recipe for Trijumf from the royal cellar master Zivan Tadic who was the winemaker of the Karadjordjevic royal house before the World War Two. Trijumf was served at a few European royal courts at that time. Sightseeing of the winery and vineyards, including wine tasting of 4 different types of wine. Also, visit to nearby winery Arsenijevic with wine tasting. |
| 14.30 | Lunch in national newly opened restaurant Knezev han. Restaurant is overlooking on the Karadjordje monument (founder of the Karadjordjevic dynasty) and his fortified town including The Church of The Holy Mother. |
| 15.45 | Departure to Belgrade. |
| 17.00 | Arrival in Belgrade. End of the tour. |
Package includes: 3 winery tastings, sightseeing tour, lunch, entering tickets, transfers by high class private car/Van/Coach, guide.
Linch á lacarte not included.
INFORMATION
WINE TOURISM for Iter Vitis
Topola. Čika Miše Aleksića 6, Serbia
+381 (0)63 662 524
email: [email protected]
website: www.winetourism.rs