Oplenac & Vinarija Aleksandrovic

Hilly terrains of Oplenac have been used for growing grapevine since ancient times. The place where Winery Aleksandrovic is situated, originates its name from the distant past. During the Roman Empire it was called Vincea, in the Middle Ages it was Vinica, and today – Vinca, and that is the direct association of what the population of this area has been occupied with since those times. At the beginning of the 20th century, the winegrowers` cooperative from Vencac was built and later on, the vineyard and the wine cellar of King Petar and Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, and they spread fame of wine from Oplenac throughout Europe. The Aleksandrovic family, which is known for raising grapevine, and famous for wine production more than 100 years, closely collaborated with winegrowers and vintners of the royal cellar from the very beginning, and it was one of the founders of the cooperative.

When Zivan Tadic, the royal cellar master (who emigrated in Canada after the Second World War), had found out that the Winery “Aleksandrovic” was restoring vintner tradition of Oplenac area, he sent a recipe to Vinca – and that was the brand structure of “Triumph”, which was the best royal wine, widely known at all European courts before the Second World war. That is how we started to cover with writing new pages of our long family tradition of wine growing and production, drawing support from the experience of our ancestors on the basis of old manuscript, from new scientific knowledge and from modern technology.