The oldest grapevine

With an age of more than 400 years entered in the Guinness Book of Records

The vine boasts in the oldest part of the city, on Lent, where it climbs a building that was once part of the city walls. Her story tells of resilience and extraordinary life energy, as the vine has survived in its 450s everything from Turkish sieges, numerous fires, grape aphids, to the bombing of the city.

The descendants of the Old Vine are growing all over the world, and its wine has been received as a high protocol gift from the Municipality of Maribor by celebrities such as Gari Kimovič Kasparov, Vaclav Havel, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzeneger and the Dalai Lama.

• The Old Vine grapes, the Žametovka or Modra kavčina varieties, are one of the oldest domesticated noble wine varieties in Slovenia.

• 35 to 55 kg of symbolic annual wine production is bottled in 2.5 dcl bottles by the famous artist Oskar Kogoj, which represent a valuable protocol gift - they fill them annually with no more than 100!

Events in honor of the Old Vine

• Old Vine Cut - a solemn event with the donation of vine grafts to selected cities

• Old Vine Festival - a top tourist culinary, wine-cultural festival that ends with the Old Vine harvest ceremony

• Martinovanje I St. Martin's Day Celebration - the largest one-day St. Martin's Day celebration in Slovenia