Melnik Wine Museum
Музей на виното
A small museum tracing Melnik's two thousand years of winemaking, with hundreds of Bulgarian wines on display and tastings available after the visit.
The Wine Museum stands on the main street in the centre of Melnik. It showcases the region's grape growing and winemaking traditions since the Thracian era, with ancient wine vessels, oak barrels, pressing tools and hundreds of wines from Bulgarian wine regions, with particular focus on the local Broad-leaf Melnik grape. Admission includes a tasting, and you can buy local wine to take home. It is a modest museum that takes about half an hour to see, making it good for a rainy day or as an introduction to wine tasting before visiting the cave cellars in town.
Opening hours
About 09:00–19:00
Nearby sights
- Bolyar House (Byzantine House)
- Melnik Earth Pyramids
- Pasha's House (Melnik History Museum)
- Melnik
- Kordopulov House
- Melnik Fortress (Despot Slav's Fortress)
- Rozhen Monastery
- Rupite