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Ilok: 500 Years of Winemaking

Name: Ilok: 500 Years of Winemaking
Address: Slavonia, HR

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.

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TourIlok: 500 Years of WinemakingIn 1953, Iločki Podrumi sent Traminac to Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. In 2023, the same wine poured at King Charles III's. It is the only Croatian wine on the official royal wine list. The cellars — founded 1450 by Nicholas of Ilok — survived Ottoman occupation, Habsburg rule, and the 1991 war. During that war, cellar master Franjo Volf moved 30,000 bottles by bicycle on back roads, built a false wall, and plastered it with gathered black mold so it would look centuries old. He's 83 and still lives in Ilok. Nobody officially thanked him.