Probus Wine Cellar (Podrum Probus) is a family winery whose owners, in addition to the art of making Karlovci wines for several centuries, inherit the multi-professional and multicultural heritage of everyday life in Sremski Karlovci. The family tradition records that members of the family Svinjarević from Sremski Karlovci were involved in viticulture and wine production at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, that Đura Svinjarević intensified production in the 1990s, and that daughter Vera continued to run the Probus Wine Cellar with her son Darko Metzing.
The family vineyard is located on the Danube slope near Banstol, and the basis for wine production is the following assortment of grapes[1]: Italian Riesling, Pinot Noir, Frankovka (from which rose and red wine is made), Merlot and Neoplanta. The following wines are on offer: Aurora (Italian Riesling), Venus (Pinot Noir), Rozalibi (rosé), Fortuna (Frankovka), Empire (Merlot), Avantura (red Bermet) and Zanos (white Bermet). These are honest wines, created with love and sweat and effort of winemakers, those to whom the yellow clay of Sremski Karlovci from the sunny slopes of the Danube Fruška Gora gave recognisability and uniqueness. What Svinjarević-Metzing winemakers drink is also drunk by their visitors, who are always happily welcomed here.
The wine cellar, where wine tasting and shopping takes place, is located in a two and a half century old house, now adapted to the needs of modern wine lovers, in which there is plenitude of authenticity of past centuries to preserve attention and awaken the imagination of modern nomads. Thus, the stories about the builders of wine cellars, who knew many skills, and built buildings where the temperature is constantly 13-14º C in summer and winter, and where the wine and stories about it go well together, always humour the visitors.
The name of this wine house is related to another historical story that has a special place – the one about the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus, who lifted the ban on grapevine planting in the Roman provinces and thus contributed to the rapid development of winemaking at Fruška Gora. The wine of the Fruška Gora terroir and the cheerfulness of Vera Svinjarević-Metzing easily connect wine pleasures and people from all parts of the world.
The two-level wine tasting room can accommodate up to fifty people, and the presentation, tasting and purchase of wine, accompanied by sommelier clues, wine and other stories, is spiced with snacks that, depending on the agreement, can include “švargla” (scrapple), Srem sausage, cheese, bread and lard with paprika, while Bermet is usually served with “kuglof” (Gugelhupf) with chocolate.
Announcement is mandatory.
Karlovačkog mira Street 40, Sremski Karlovci
Phone: +381 (0)63 500 027
E-mail: podrum.probus@gmail.com
Text: Gordana Stojaković
Photographs: Aleksandar Milutinović
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The text posted in: July 2021
[1] Transcription of the grape variety names is given according to: Cindrić, Petar and Vladimir Kovač (2007) “Vinogradarstvo i vina“ (“Viticulture and Wines“) Fruška Gora. Ed. Nebojša Jovanović and Jelica Nedić. Pg. 498. Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike
