Festival · Ilok

Iločka Berba Grožđa

Croatia's oldest wine festival (running since 1962) celebrates the Vintage & Harvest tradition with 58 years of Srem wine, local gastronomy, and concerts in the medieval town that saved Traminac from extinction.

What to do there

FestivalIločka Berba GrožđaEvery September for 58 years, Ilok has harvested grapes the same way: the Pudarina ceremony opens with the town crier announcing the harvest has begun, a tradition traceable to Roman Emperor Probus in the 3rd century. This is the same town where Franjo Volf saved 30,000 bottles during the 1991 war. The Cortejo parade runs illuminated floats through a medieval hilltop town on the Danube — Serbia visible across the water. From the castle battlements, you can see the phylloxera-immune vines spreading below while the Order of Santiago's former headquarters glows behind you.

Wineries nearby

Winery · Slavonia Ilok: 500 Years of Winemaking Ilok's 500-year-old wine cellars — carved from 15th and 18th-century limestone tunnels — preserve Traminac that was served at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953.