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Big Guy's Wine Tours
The guide was updated:Join us on a guided wine tour with a sommelier and discover the world of colours, scents and tastes of the best Slovenian wines.
Tours: Half-day wine tour, Personalised Slovenian wine tour, 5* wine tour
Book your spot on a wine tour:
T: +386 41 949 635
E: info@bigguyswinetours.com
Useful Information
- Opening hours: Bookings must be made in advance.
- Website: www.bigguyswinetours.com/
- Phone: +386 41 949 635
- Email: info@bigguyswinetours.com
Digital Travel Guide Download
Our travel guides are free to read and explore online. If you want to get your own copy, the full travel guide for this destination is available to you offline* to bring along anywhere or print for your trip.
*this will be downloaded as a PDF.Price
€4,95
Here you will find the oldest vine in the world. At 400 years old Stara Trta is symbolic of Maribor’s wine culture and is the city’s top attraction. The house is now home to an information centre where you can take a walk through the history of Stara Trta and taste a variety of noble wines from local producers.
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Drava Cycling Route - Drava Bike
The Cycling Route in the Slovenian and Croatian territories is divided into 6 stages:
Dravograd – Radlje ob Dravi (29 km)
Radlje ob Dravi – Maribor (45 km)
Maribor – Ptuj (30 km)
Ptuj – Ormož (28 km)
Ormož – Varaždin (30 km)
Varaždin – Legrad (52 km)
The Drava Cycling Route, an international long-distance cycling route, begins its Slovenian journey in Dravograd and continues to wind its way along the Drava through 145 km of Slovenian landscape. It continues its way towards Croatia towards Varaždin, all the way up to Legrad, where Mura river discharges into Drava river.
You are invited to discover the Drava river’s beauty and the enjoyment it gives to bikers along the way! The route path, due to the rise in the section between Podvelka and Fala, is suitable for better-prepared cyclists or is recommended to use the train.
Other parts of the bicycle route are also suitable for less prepared cyclists.
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Maribor Guided Tours
Discover Maribor’s hidden treasures and listen with fascination to the stories related by a professional guide as you are taken on a walking or train tour of the city’s top attractions. Cycling and wine tours are also available by special arrangement.
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Maribor Wine Trail
Get to know excellent Styrian wines!
The Maribor Wine Trail takes you through the wine cellars in the centre of Maribor where you will be able to get to know excellent Styrian wines and their producers.
The Maribor Wine Trail package includes:
Wine bar LeVino
Maribor Water Tower Wine Shop
The Old Vine House
Purchase packages Maribor Wine Trail or Maribor Wine Trail with visit to the wine underground:
TIC Maribor, Partizanska cesta 6 A Street, Maribor, Phone: +386 (0) 2 23 46 611, E-mail: tic@maribor.si
Old Vine House, Vojašniska ulica 8 Street, Maribor, Phone: +386 (0) 2 25 15 100, E-mail: stara-trta@maribor.si
A possibility for an extra charge: A professionally guided tour on the topic of the city’s wine culture: surcharge according to the guidebook.
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Big guy`s wine highlights with the World`s Oldest Vine
Embark on a wine pilgrimage on one of the most beautiful Slovenian wine routes. Enhance your wine culture in the company of a top sommelier and taste the fusion of Štajerska wine varieties and selected local cuisine. Learn about Štajerska winemakers and capture a magic moment of the famous heart between vineyards, one of the most beautiful vistas in Slovenia.
What does the experience include?
- Meeting a guide/sommelier in front of the Old Vine House.
- A ride to Svečina, welcome sparkling wine and taking photos by the famous heart-shape wine road.
- Wine tasting accompanied by professional insight of a wine-maker and sommelier and tasting local delicacies.
- A ride to Maribor to the Vinag Wine Cellar.
- A visit to the Vinag Wine Cellar, one of the largest and oldest classical wine cellars in Europe! Presentation of wine stories, climbing into a concrete barrel and wine tasting.
- A stroll round the Maribor city centre to the Old Vine House in Lent.
- A visit to the Old Vine House and a possibility to take photos in the canopy of the oldest vine in the world. Expert tasting of the samples selected among 190 wines of the Podravje region. Making a souvenir from a cork.
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Wine tastings in Old Vine House
Treasury of wines from Maribor and its surroundings
The Old Vine House Winery is a true treasure trove of Maribor wine-growing districts, as it represents around 55 local winemakers who contribute to the collection of more than 200 different wine labels, including the Oceanus sparkling wine that matures for several months at the bottom of the Bay of Piran, earth-ripened orange Dolium wine and the like.
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Drava Centre
City beach in the Mariborsko Jezero Regional Park.
Catch a glimpse of the "sea".
Take advantage of some sunny hours and spend the afternoon at Maribor’s leisure beach on the Accumulating lake Mariborsko jezero! Here you can catch your own piece of "sea," calm the frantic pace of modern life and recharge your batteries.
Stop by the river, sit on the terrace, or drink a cold drink in a clearing beside the playground. In a pine forest, close to the water, a beautiful city beach also offers many recreational opportunities on and near the water.
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Rafting Trip On The Drava
Sit back with a snack and a glass of Maribor wine and marvel at the landscape as the raft slowly meanders its way through the Drava valley and moors in Lent.
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Visit and wine tasting in the Vinag Wine Cellar
This huge wine cellar spreads 15,000m² and is one of the oldest in Europe. Many of Maribor’s finest wines are produced here. Visitors can book wine tasting and a tour of the cellars.
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Big Guy's Wine Tours
Join us on a guided wine tour with a sommelier and discover the world of colours, scents and tastes of the best Slovenian wines.
Tours: Half-day wine tour, Personalised Slovenian wine tour, 5* wine tour
Book your spot on a wine tour:
T: +386 41 949 635
E: info@bigguyswinetours.com
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