Wine roads of Serbia: nine regions, from Fruška Gora to Negotin
Published: 19/07/2026
Serbia has nine wine regions and more than four hundred registered wineries, most of which opened their doors to visitors only in the past fifteen years. Today you can visit three cellars in a day, have lunch with local cheese and prosciutto, and sleep in a room above the barrels — often an hour from Belgrade or Novi Sad.
Fruška Gora — the oldest wine road
Vineyards on the southern slopes of Fruška Gora appear in Roman sources, and Sremski Karlovci was the centre of the wine trade for centuries. This is the home of bermet, a dessert wine flavoured with some twenty herbs and spices, once served at the Viennese court and on the Titanic.
The route runs from Sremski Karlovci through Irig and Vrdnik to Banoštor and Čerević above the Danube. Besides bermet, look for Probus, Rhine Riesling and Frankovka. Most cellars accept visitors without notice at weekends; on weekdays, call a day ahead.
Combine it with the Fruška Gora monasteries and a night in Sremski Karlovci or Novi Sad.
Vršac — a town that smells of wine
The Vršac vineyards are among Europe's largest single stretches: over seventeen hundred hectares on the slopes of the Vršac hills. Wine has been made here since the Middle Ages, and September's Vinofest is the country's oldest wine festival.
Whites dominate — Italian Riesling, Muscat Croquant, Kreaca. Add a cable-car ride to the Vršac Tower and a walk through a town with Vojvodina's tallest church spire. For a night, see apartments in Vršac.
The Negotin region — stone cellar villages
The Rajac pimnice are wine villages where nobody lives: rows of stone cellars with tiled roofs, built in the 19th century purely for storing wine. Rajac, Rogljevo and Štubik are state-protected and among the most unusual places in Serbia.
Negotin wine was exported to France after phylloxera, and native varieties such as Začinak and Prokupac survived here. Combine with the Iron Gates, Golubac and Felix Romuliana — two days is enough.
Župa — the heart of Prokupac
In Župa almost every household makes wine. The town has a monument to the vine and hosts the Župa Harvest at the end of September, which draws tens of thousands.
Prokupac, the native Serbian variety, has had a renaissance here after decades of neglect. Aleksandrovac is half an hour from Vrnjačka Banja and an hour from Kopaonik, so wine pairs easily with a spa or mountain break.
Tri Morave and Šumadija
Tri Morave covers Trstenik, Kruševac, Jagodina and Paraćin; Šumadija covers Topola, Aranđelovac and Rudnik. The Karađorđević royal cellar in Topola, built in the early 20th century, is still working.
Šumadija producers now make everything from Tamjanika and Riesling to Cabernet Sauvignon, and most have a restaurant and rooms. Topola is under ninety minutes from Belgrade — the easiest wine weekend from the capital.
Planning a wine weekend
A tasting lasts one to two hours and usually costs between five and fifteen euros per person for three to six samples with a light bite. With a meal, budget twenty to thirty. Almost all wineries want notice for groups, and many for couples out of season.
The key question is who drives. For two, stay in the vineyards and walk or take a taxi; for a larger group, a minibus with a driver split six ways costs less than a single fine. We covered the options in our piece on coaches and minibus transfers.
The best window is late August to mid-October, during the harvest, when nearly every region holds a festival. Spring is quieter and cheaper; in winter mainly the larger wineries with restaurants stay open.
What to take home
Wine bought at the cellar is usually ten to twenty per cent cheaper than in shops, and many small producers never reach retail at all. If you are driving, mind the storage — a bottle left in a hot boot loses quality within hours.