DIONYSUS Experience Šumadija
DIONYSUS Experience Šumadija will shed light on the undiscovered wine region of central Serbia. After three hours of exploring the amazing vineyards at the foot of the Venčac mountain and feeling that this nature is gently nurtured by human hands, the road will take you to the ALEKSANDROVIĆ winery. Tucked away in the vineyard itself, the ALEKSANDROVIĆ winery summer house will be our host for wine tasting, a Dionysian feast and entertainment. Feel Dionysus, give yourself a full sensory experience and deserve a day full of action and enjoyment.
A DIVINE ADVENTURE IN THE HEART OF ŠUMADIJA
The ultimate wine and hiking experience will take place on Saturday, May 27, 2023 in the heart of Serbia, Šumadija, at the foot of the Venčac mountain and close to Oplenac. The start of the hiking tour through the vineyards, the matinee and the party after the walk will be organized in summer house of Aleksandrović, one of the most beautiful wineries in Serbia.
This will be an opportunity for those of you who want to escape from the city for the weekend, to experience an active hedonistic day in which we will explore new walking paths and absorb new tastes of Aleksandrović wine.
Don’t spend another weekend sitting at home or in a restaurant, spend it on the move, learn something new and taste the flavours that only Šumadija can offer.
Not only will Dionysus bring an activity for everyone’s fitness level, so you can walk, run or mountain bike the path in the vineyards — he will serve you wines and meze in two places in the vineyards so you can enjoy sports, nature and clean the air.
You must have heard of ALEKSANDROVIĆ, and if you haven’t, you will discover a new place and a type of hospitality that only Serbia and this place can offer.
This time, the following wines will be served: Triumf, Varianta, Prokupac and Vizija.
For food, the chefs will make divine veal sach with salad and “Vineyard Pie” made with raisins. There will certainly be vegan options for all of you who fast or don’t eat animal foods.
Finally, for those still looking for Dionysus, we will organize a DJ party to dance and enjoy the sunset in the vineyard. We will play until 8:00 p.m., when it will be time to sober up and get ready for the trip home.
Have fun and live life to the fullest in search of Dionysus.
Veroljub Zmijanac, founder of DIONYSUS Experience
PROGRAM & TIMELINE
In the next pages find out what you can expect on the event day.
Date: Saturday, 27th May 2023.
Location: ALEKSANDROVIĆ Summer house, Ježevac-Vinča, Topola (Google map)
Timeline:
- 09:00 Opening the gates and check-in
- 10:00 Start of the Hike
- 13:00 The Matinee
- Lunch and wine are served
- Winery history
- Little wine school
- 17:00 The Party
- 20:00 End of the event
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LAMB AND VEAL SAC, VINEYARD PIE, AND LOTS OF WINE AFTER TREKKING
After you have completed the active part and, hopefully, returned alive and well, we will again open the doors of ALEKSANDROVIĆ.
Each participant will receive 3 coupons for 3 glasses of wine, and the wine menu includes. You can buy all the wines you taste in bottles at the winery at preferential prices.
Wine list
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Lunch
On the menu are lamb and veal sach and potato salad with seasonal fresh salad. For dessert, we will have a vineyard pie with raisins.
A seating area will be organized within the winery, but our advice is that you also bring your mats and your picnic table. After sports, you can change into your favorite summer wardrobe in the changing rooms. You can pick up things in the Wardrobe.
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ABOUT ALEKSANDROVIĆ
The hills of Oplenac have been used by people since ancient times for growing vines. The place where the Aleksandrović winery originates has its roots, and above all the name, from the distant past. In Roman times Vincea, in the Middle Ages Vinica, and today Vinca – is a direct association with what the population of this place has been doing since ancient times. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Venča vineyard cooperative was built in the vicinity of Vinča, followed by the vineyards and cellar of kings Peter and Aleksandar Karađorđević, who spread the fame of Oplenac wines throughout Europe.
The Aleksandrović family, which has been engaged in viticulture and winemaking for more than a hundred years, has from the beginning worked closely with the winegrowers and winemakers of the king’s cellars, and was among the founders of the Venčac Vine Cooperative. Great-grandfather Miloš Aleksandrović was one of the founders of the Vencačka winegrowing cooperative in 1903, and the family had 30,000 vines by the beginning of World War II. The viticultural and winemaking tradition was continued by grandfather Života and Aleksandar Aleksandrović.
When in 1992, the famous palace cellarman Živan Tadić, who emigrated to Canada after World War II, learned that the Aleksandrović family was restoring the winemaking tradition of the Oplenac region, he sent the original recipe to Vinča – the varietal composition of Triumf, the best wine of the royal cellars, which was previously of the Second World War, it was drunk in almost all European courts. So in our basement, based on the yellowed manuscript, we started to write new pages of the long family history of viticulture and winemaking, relying on the experiences of our ancestors, new scientific knowledge and modern technology.
A new stage in the development of the Aleksandrović Winery began in 2000, when a new winery was built and state-of-the-art equipment for the production of premium wines was acquired.
Today, the Aleksandrović family is the leading Serbian private winery with its wines and uses 75 hectares of its own vineyards planted with high-quality grape varieties for the production of its premium wines. The vineyards are located just a few kilometers from the winery, in three different locations – Vinča, Ježevac and Bokanja, which are characterized by different microclimatic conditions and soil types. The lands on which the plantations were raised belong to the type of fattening and fattening. These are light to medium heavy soils, water permeable and with good physical and chemical properties. They are characterized by a low content of humus, which, in conjunction with a weakly lush rootstock and light feeding, allows us to obtain low yields and high quality grapes. Ježevac hill is particularly characteristic for its skeletal structure. In this location, the soils are the poorest in humus and the richest in stone.
We maintain our grapes and our wines with great care, love and respect. In order to achieve full and optimal ripeness, we leave only the best grapes on the vines, and pick them by hand. During all these processes, the hands of hardworking winegrowers touch the vines more than 15 times in one year. The yield is reduced from 5 kg to 1 kg to 1.5 kg, because we select only the best grapes that will give us top wines.
The Oplenački region, where the Aleksandrović Winery is located, has always been known for growing vines and winemaking, but also for its rich historical heritage. Only a few kilometers from the winery are the Mausoleum of the Karađorđević dynasty, the Royal Winery and Karađorđev town.
READY FOR AN ADVENTURE?
FIND OUT WHAT YOUR NEXT STEP IS
A week before the event, via email, you will receive all the information, tips, and tricks for the best possible atmosphere.
TRANSFER
We will be organizing There is an organized mini-bus line from Belgrade to Aranđelovac for this event. You can buy a ticket for 1.500,00 RSD TBA
PARKING
Parking will be provided for participants within the winery itself.
MOUNTAINEERING EQUIPMENT
Please bring water with you and dress appropriately for the weather. Hats, sunglasses, sunscreen in the sun, and a waterproof jacket. All participants should have hiking or running shoes.
WARDROBE AND CHANGING
A cloakroom and separate changing rooms for men and women are available at the start. They will be open from the beginning to the end of the event.
ON ARRIVAL
You go directly to the registration desk to collect your welcome pack.
HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN YOUR STARTING PACKAGE
You will get your welcome (starting) package at the registration desk in ALEKSANDROVIĆ winery, once you show an identification document to our volunteers.
Your starting package consists of a:
- Printed route map
- A wine glass you will bring with you during the event and to your home after the event.
- 2 refreshment points on a hiking route with water, small bites, and wine to taste
- 3 coupons for 3 wine glasses to choose
- Coupon for the lunch with a dessert
- Wine during the Party with live DJ session.
- Ticket for the wardrobe
- Entry to fun and educative sessions about winemaking and the history of Šumadija wine region
- Medical support during the event
- Our best will to make you happy :)
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TRANSFER
If you want to transfer your registration to another participant, please read below and follow the rules.
PARTICIPANT TRANSFER
Transfer to another person is available for individual and group registrations. Once the registration is transferred, the new participant forfeits their eligibility for the right to:
- Participant re-transfer
- Event transfer
- A full or partial refund
- Defer
For participant transfer there will be an extra fee of €10 (+ 5% Registration fee) which will be paid by the new participant, not the participant who originally paid the registration fee. Participant transfer is available until 15 days prior to the start of the event.
TRANSFER PROCESS
Please contact us if you want to transfer you fee to another participant.
WITHDRAWAL
If you want to withdraw your registration, please read below and follow the rules.
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE EVENT
If you need to withdraw from the event, please note that you must submit the request before the deadline.
- Until 45 before the event: 50% refund of the entry fee
- After 45 days before the event: no refund possible
The money will be refunded to the Credit Card used during the registration. If the credit card has expired, please chose the bank transfer refund. Please note that a credit card refund can take up to 3-5 days, and up to 1-2 weeks for the bank transfer.
WITHDRAWAL PROCESS
If you want to withdrawal from the event please contact us.
DEFERRAL
If you want to deferral your registration, please read the rules written below.
DEFERRAL OPTION
Deferrals are only allowed to events in the same event country organization in the next calendar year. Option to defer registration to next year is available for individual registrations and group registrations (only if the entire group will defer). Once deferral has been redeemed, the participant forfeits their eligibility for the right to:
- Participant transfer
- Event transfer
- A full or partial refund
- Re-defer
Deferral option is available until 45 days prior to the start of the event.
DEFERRAL PROCESS
Please contact us if you want to defer from the event.
EVENT CANCELATION
Participant will get no refund: if the Event producer defers, changes or cancels the event from cause beyond the control of Event Producer (acts of God and the elements, including without limitation, wind, rough water, rain, hail, hurricane, tornado, earthquake), acts of terrorism, fire, threatened or actual strike, labor difficulty, work stoppage, insurrection, war, public disaster, flood, unavoidable casualty, race course conditions, or any other cause beyond the control of Event Producer).
BY REGISTERING PARTICIPANTS UNDERSTAND AND CONFIRM:
All the Terms of Service written above.
Event Producer reserves the right, in its sole and complete discretion, to deny entry, revoke the entry application of any applicant at any time, and/or to disqualify any individual from the Event. Applicant expressly waives any claim for damages arising from the denial or revocation of an entry application exceeding the amount of the entry fee.
In no event may participant (or anyone else on their behalf) without the prior written consent of Event Producer, SportIT d.o.o., its assignees, or its designees: (a) use any intellectual property of Event Producer, SportIT d.o.o. and/or its affiliates, including, but not limited to, the DIONYSUS marks and names (COLLECTIVELY IPs) and/or any words or marks that refer to, or are suggestive of, or confusingly similar to, the Event, any Event logo, Event name, Event location, Event date, or Event distance (collectively, “Event IP”), or (b) sell, market, distribute, or produce any products, events, merchandise, websites, or services that are Event-branded, or branded or marked using (i) any Event logo, (ii) any Event name, (iii) any Event IP, or (iv) or any IP (including without limitation the word “DIONYSUS” or any foreign translation thereof as a prefix for, or component of, any event, trade name, trademark, organization name, club name, or brand of any kind, in each case in any way related to training, coaching, or any hiking sports).
This Terms of Service are drafted in the English and shall be subject to application of the Serbian law and shall be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of the Serbian law. All disputes arising from this Agreement, including disputes pertaining to the issues of lawful creation, breach or termination of this Agreement, as well as legal consequences arising thereof, shall be instructed to resolve the matter through conciliation in accordance with the Rules of Conciliation of the Serbian Chamber of Economy in force. In case these disputes are not resolved through conciliation within 30 (thirty) days from the day of submitting the motion to initiate conciliation procedure or within a different deadline agreed to by the parties, these disputes shall be resolved through arbitration in accordance with the Rules of Arbitration of the Permanent Arbitration Court of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. For disputes whose value amounts up to (including) EUR 100.000,00 (in writing: one hundered thousends euro), the number of arbitrators shall be one. For disputes whose value is greater than EUR 1,000,000.00 (in writing: in writing: one hundered thousends euro), the number of arbitrators shall be three. The applicable law shall be the law of the Republic of Serbia.The language of the arbitration proceeding shall be Serbian. The place of arbitration shall be Serbia, the Republic of Serbia.
Participants acknowledge and confirm their liability for compensation for any damage to others’ property and/or material and/or non-material damage caused by injury or death of third persons (including, but not limited to other Event participants, employees/representatives of the Released Parties and similar) that may result from their actions and/or inaction.
FULL DAY OF ACTIVITIES AND FOOD
Price
EARLY PRICE
79.00* EUR
Until April 21st
REGULAR PRICE
89.00* EUR
From April 22nd to May 21st
* There is a cost of the registration platform “Njuko.net” in the amount of EUR 2.35 per transaction.
Discount
“4+1” GROUP DISCOUNT
The fifth ticket is free. Just keep adding friends on the registration page to take advantage of this discount.
Watch the tutorial here.
The event is limited to 150 participants.
FULL DAY OF ACTIVITIES AND FOOD
Price
EARLY PRICE
79.00* EUR
Until April 21st
REGULAR PRICE
89.00* EUR
From April 22nd to May 21st
* There is a cost of the registration platform “Njuko.net” in the amount of EUR 2.35 per transaction.
Discount
“4+1” GROUP DISCOUNT
The fifth ticket is free. Just keep adding friends on the registration page to take advantage of this discount.
Watch the tutorial here.
The event is limited to 150 participants.