Serbian Wine - Regions

Regions

The most important Serbian vineyard areas are situated in Negotinska krajina (250 km in the east from Belgrade), in the area of Vršac (100 km on the north-east from Belgrade), on the slopes of Fruška Gora (80km on the north-west from Belgrade), in the Subotica area (200 km on the north from Belgrade), Šumadija (100 km on the south-west from Belgrade) and Župa (230 km on the south-east from Belgrade). Long lasting tradition of Serbian wine growing in the last 10 years was renewed by numerous private producers that built contemporary cellars and already became well known out of the borders of Serbia.

According to a classification from 1970s, Serbia has nine winemaking regions, each with several subregions:

  1. Timok region, in eastern Central Serbia, around Timok river valley
    1. Krajina subregion, centered in Negotin
    2. Knjaževac subregion
  2. Nišava-South Morava region in southern Serbia, in valleys of eponymous rivers
    1. Aleksinac subregion
    2. Toplica subregion
    3. Niš subregion
    4. Nišava subregion
    5. Leskovac subregion
    6. Vranje subregion
  3. West Morava region in central Serbia, along the lower flow of the river
    1. Čačak subregion
    2. Kruševac subregion
  4. Šumadija-Great Morava region in central Serbia, the largest one by area
    1. Mlava subregion
    2. Jagodina subregion
    3. Belgrade subregion
    4. Oplenac subregion
  5. Pocerina region, in western Serbia, around the mountain of Cer
  6. Srem region, around Fruška Gora mountain in the province of Vojvodina
  7. Banat region, around Vršac Mountains in eastern Vojvodina
    1. South Banat subregion
    2. North Banat subregion
  8. Subotica-Horgoš region in northern Vojvodina
  9. Kosovo region, in central Kosovo

In light of revival of winemaking industry of Serbia, Serbian Ministry of Agriculture in 2008 launched an initiative for reform of Serbian laws on winemaking, and re-classification of wine regions.

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