If 220 years of tradition can be considered youth, we will say that the youngest of the four large wineries of our county is located in Feričanci west of Našice. Famous for its "frankovka", it has been undergoing a profound transformation lately, growing into one of the most innovative wine brands in Croatia. Among other things, the Feričanci winery offers the market the first Croatian wine with a label that provides an augmented reality (AR) experience. Nevertheless, regardless of entering the high tech phase of their development, the people of Feričan are still faithful to their roots. After all, the name of their new umbrella brand – Enosophia (Greek: wisdom of wine) – is very close to the old one, that there is truth in wine!

It is also true that when presenting the other two big Slavonia-Baranja wineries, we cannot escape the attribute "the best", no matter how worn out it may seem. How, for example, can you keep quiet about the fact that you can boast of the largest historic wine cellar in the country, if even most wine connoisseurs don't know about it? And that's exactly what the half-millennium-old cellar of the "Belje" winery is, the pride of wine-growing Baranja, also known as the "mother of wine". A few kilometers northwest, on the gentle slopes of the Baranja Planina, "Belje" offers you the experience of one of the most modern wineries in Croatia, as well as a view from a fantastic vantage point bathed in the sea of Baranja's viticultural symmetry and the harmonious family of Graševina, Pinot, Traminac, Chardonnay, Sauvignon and others.

Farther to the east, on the very edge of Croatia, bathed by the Danube and the sun of Pannonia, the Erdut wineries are located, apart from Graševina, also known for their Chardonnays, Pinots and Traminac. The largest of them, that of Erdut vineyards, has almost three centuries of tradition behind it, and under it – the largest plantation vineyard in Croatia (490 ha)! And when the vineyard is the largest, the barrels cannot be smaller either. So here is also a monstrosity of 75,000 liters, as big as a one-room apartment and officially one of the largest wooden wine barrels in the world!

If you happen to have a large amount of wine, you can always find peace in the 300-year-old archbishop's winery in Đakovo, famous far and wide for the spiritual peace evoked by its chardonnay and especially traminac (including its selective and ice vintages). The wines of Đakovo come from the micro-locations of Trnava and Mandićevac, where the palate can also be enjoyed at several more spiritually inspired wine addresses (eg "Apostol" winery).

When it comes to the smaller, but no less valuable wineries in Slavonia-Baranja, it should not be stressed twice that each of our four large vineyards hides real pearls of family winemaking traditions: "Katavić" wines in Feričanci/Zoljana Našički; "Brzica" in Erdut, "Danubio" in Aljmaš and "Antunović" in Dalj; a series of family winemakers along the route from Kamenec and Kneževi Vinograd, via Suza to the romantic wine gators (cellars) of Zmajevec, the heart of small winemakers in Baranja, but also beyond (suffice it to say that here, for example, there are also "Josić", and the longest-standing Slavonian- the Baranja winemaking dynasty, the Gerštmayers). If you don't manage to visit them all, don't worry. A representation of the best of small and large awaits you in one place - in the Regional Wine Shop in the heart of Osijek Tvrđa.