Wine and Vruja : news from the Knights of the Croatian Wines Brotherhood
In the famous Croatian tourist town of Opatija, the unique event “Wine and Vruja” has been held on the first weekend in August for ten years. The organizers, an association of wine enthusiasts, sink iron cages with wine bottles into the sea, take out the bottles that have been maturing for a year and hold a public wine tasting. Vruja are underground caves and a geological phenomenon, representing the sources of distant sinkholes from the depths of the karst area.