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The locals call it “La Batlla de Vino de Haro”. We call it San Vino. All you need to know is that this is the world’s best (maybe only) wine fight and we’re the best travel company there (and the only ones brave enough to turn up).
THE WINE FIGHT IS ALWAYS ON THE MORNING OF THE 29TH OF JUNE (BUT THERE ARE PARTIES AND THINGS TO DO FOR A WEEK BEFORE)
OUR SAN VINO CAMPSITE IS OPEN FROM JUNE 26TH UNTIL JUNE 30TH
CHOOSE BETWEEN NIGHTLY AND FOUR-NIGHT ULTIMATE PACKAGES, OR COMBINE WITH SAN FERMIN, OUR SURF HOUSE AND BBK LIVE MUSIC FESTIVAL, AT €80 A NIGHT (2 NIGHT MINIMUM)*
🏕️ Accommodation in a variety of camping options with camping mats and sleeping bags provided
🍳🍾 brunch with bottomless mimosas every morning
💃 Our epic San Vino campsite parties with DJs, drinking games and 100s OF PARTY ANIMALS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO PARTY WITH
🍷 €15 all-you-can-drink beer, wine and sangria bar
🥴 Guides to TAKE you to the Wine Fight, plus all the parties in town AND make sure you’re having the best time
🎟️ Entry to the Wine Fight and all Stoke Travel San Vino events
🍇 Plenty of parties, opportunities to explore the vineyards and winemakers of Haro, or the local La Rioja countryside
🌎👫👭👬🌏 An international crowd of like-minded travellers, wine lovers and wine throwers to party with.
San Vino, aka La Batalla de Vino de Haro, aka the Wine Fight of Spain, takes place on the 29th of June every year, in the town of Haro, La Rioja. The fight goes down amongst some of the world’s best red wine vines, where for centuries now locals and visitors have celebrated this tradition by throwing wine on each other.
Stoke Travel is the original tour company visiting Haro and La Rioja for the Spanish Wine Fight, and is San Vino’s quality camping option, with our more-inclusive camping packages, completely open bar, local wine and cheese tasting on your arrival, and more fun as you will be staying with like-minded travellers from all over the world.
2 night min, flexible terms, group payments
La Rioja, Spain
June 26 - 30
Meet Us There
Camping Accommodation
Hot Breakfast w/ Mimosas
Unlimited Beer & Sangria (€15/day)
The Wine Fight is known as La Batalla de Vino de Haro by the locals, this is the perfect opportunity to visit one of the world’s great red-wine regions and leave after being soaked head-to-toe in the grape juice that isn’t up to the region’s high standards (don’t worry, it’s not a waste).
Stoke Travel’s more-inclusive Wine Fight packages include entry into the battle, your stay in comfortable camping accommodations with camping mats and sleeping bags, an open beer, wine and sangria bar between 10am and 10pm, a delicious brunch with a cooked breakfast buffet and bottomless mimosas each day, Stoke Travel guides to show you where and how to battle, welcome local cheese and wine tasting, plus plenty of red wine to throw.
The celebrations find their origins in a centuries-old land dispute between Haro and neighbouring Miranda de Ebro, that over the years descended into the Wine Fight (read more about the Wine Fight’s history here). These days the dispute has been solved, but the Batalla de Vino remains, with locals young and old coming from Haro and the surrounding region to fight with each other and with travellers. The battle is fought on a hillside overlooking La Rioja’s vineyards, and battlers use buckets, water pistols and any other device that can carry and throw wine. And don’t worry, wine lovers, it’s not a waste! This is the wine that wasn’t good enough to be bottled, and when the battle’s over the rivers of wine fun back down the mountain and into the vineyards to fertilise them. The Wine Fight is an up-and-coming Spanish fiesta and one that you must visit if you’re a wine lover, party animal or a lover of unique travelling experiences.
Find out more about this one-of-a-kind Spanish party here.
Stoke Travel’s San Vino campsite is the perfect place to party and prepare for the Wine Fight — and to wash away the vino in the on-site pool afterwards. Set by a river at the base of the hills where the battle takes place, surrounded by vineyards, the campsite is where we sleep in pre-erected twin tents, feast on a yummy cooked bottomless brunch together, and party with hundreds of like-minded international travellers, with an unlimited open bar of beer and sangria.
Adding to this amazing festival’s alure is the fact that it takes place every year amongst the famous red wine vineyards of La Rioja. Renowned for full bodied red wines, the state of La Rioja in general, and the town of Haro in particular, are globally renowned for their world-class red wine production. For lovers of Spanish vino tinto this gives you the perfect opportunity to do guided tours of famous wineries like Muga, Cvne and Ramon de Bilbao, as well as taste innumerable vintages in every bar in town.
Stoke Travel San Vino campsite opens.
2pm – Meet us at the Stoke San Vino Campsite. Check in will open from 2pm.
THINGS YOU DON’T WANNA MISS IN THE TOWN SQUARE:
7:00pm – In the José Ruiz Extremiana Square “El Feo”, Dragoncio children’s performance
7:30 – 8:00pm – Tourists and locals gather at Plaza de la Paz to participate in various contests, food tastings, and live performances.
8:30pm onward – The music will continue to the early hours of the morning with Diskobolo (Mobile Disco)
8am -11am – Bottomless brunch is served at campsite
6:30pm – 8:30pm – Foreplay Party! Before we head into Plaza del Paz (an easy 5 min walk away) to get amongst the festivities of the locals
The Town has a bunch of festivities planned in the lead up to the Wine Fight – we’ll update once we have that information, but here’s an example of what they’ve had going on in the past!
12pm – In the El Mazo Pediments, Tortilla (Spanish Omelette) Competition. Locals gather in the square to taste their native dishes and are judged based on their cooking abilities
8pm – In the Plaza de la Paz a parade is put on through the town celebrating San Juan by the locals where food and music is rife on to enjoy
10pm – In the Herradura, musical animation tour by RocKalean. RocKalean is an itinerant rock group that makes versions of rock and pop songs in Spanish, Basque and English
11:30pm – In La Herradura, a parade is put on by charanga de la Peña. Where people come to meet, eat and celebrate San Juan
11:45pm and onwards – In the Plaza de la Paz enjoy music from live acts
6am – 7am – Quick breakfast of muffins and fruits to prepare for the wine fight at the Stoke Campsite
Around 7am – Walk up the hill and partake in enormous wine fight
12pm – 2pm – Recover with a late brunch back on our campsite
Afternoon – Chill out, get showered and de-purple yourself whilst enjoying our unlimited beer and sangria (if you can stomach it)
THINGS YOU DON’T WANNA MISS IN THE TOWN SQUARE:
9.30pm – Come down and watch the iconic Toro De Fuego aka the firework bull where they ‘release a fake bull with fireworks’ throughout the crowds to celebrate local traditions.
11:00pm – In the Plaza de la Paz, a musical concert with local and international bands and lots of people dancing. During the performance at 12am, several fake bulls will be released. Fires that will end the holidays.
8am – 11am – Bottomless brunch at the Stoke Campsite
11am – time to check-out and hit the road – we’re off to either San Fermin or our San Sebastian Surf House if you wanna join us?
La Rioja is the número uno wine making district of Spain, it has over 500 wineries and is only a short distance from Bilbao. If you’ve been lucky enough to find a bottle of La Rioja in your hands you’ll know what we’re talking about! La Batalla del Vino takes place on a hillside vineyard just outside the village of Haro, a walk up the hill from our campsite.
If you choose to combine San Vino Wine Fight Festival 2025 with a stay at our infamous Surf Camp in San Sebastian, then it’s just a 2.5 hour coach trip fuelled mostly by wine drinking and singing. If you’re combining the trip with a Barcelona stay at Costa Brava for example, then the journey is a little longer but that just means even more wine drinking and singing.
Camping Haro
Avenida de Miranda 1
26200
Haro
La Rioja
Take the bus from Madrid, Barcelona or San Sebastian on June 26, or make your own way to Haro. Check Omio for the best deals on flights, buses and trains. If you fly choose either Bilbao or Biarritz airports. From Bilbao airport there are regular buses to San Sebastian. To get to San Sebastian from Biarritz International Airport take a French SNCF train to Hendaye, change to the nearby Euskotren station (located just outside the SNCF station) and take a Euskotren to San Sebastian. Each train ride is between 30-40 minutes, with the total train trip cost less than €10. A coach service also exists between Biarritz airport and the Hendaye train station, via Saint-Jean-De-Luz (change buses there). The coach ride is less than one hour and costs about €4. You can then reach Haro from San Sebastian-Donostia by bus or train.
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This 13 day packages is stuffed with the best Spain has to offer, and is sure to be the wildest week-and-a-bit of your life. Scroll down to see all inclusions.
First, we’re hitting our San Vino party campsite in Spain, where we stay up all night before we soak ourselves silly in the middle of a full-on wine fight in the mountains of La Rioja. Thousands of litres of red wine, flying through the air with zero regard for your outfit or dignity. By 10am, you’ll be drenched purple, slurring your words, and have a vendetta against a 70 year old Spanish woman with a weed sprayer.
Then we’re off to our San Sebastián Surf House, where it’s surf, sun, and beers in hand as you chill with a sick crowd who’ll make you feel right at home. We surf all day and we party all night. We hike the hills behind the house and stumble through the San Sebastian old town streets. For certified shred dawgs and beachbums alike, a few days in our secluded animal house is the perfect intermission for your holiday of benders.
Finally, we’ll wrap up this absolute shitshow with the opening weekend of San Fermin (Running of the Bulls) in Pamplona. Experience city wide fiestas, before the most terrifying five minutes of your life, with angry bulls charging you down narrow streets. Recover from the near-death experiences at our campsite with live music, DJs, a dip in the pool, and even more partying , you’ll get so pissed you forget you nearly died that morning. It’ll be the most epic, idiotic experience you probably shouldn’t tell your grandkids about.
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I went to San Vino with Stoke Travel last year and it was the best festival I have ever been to! The Stoke campsite is within walking distance to the street parties, which go all night, and it has a pool! We partied with the locals and got an authentic Spanish Fiesta experience. The festival itself was incredible! Stoke has buses going right up to the where the Wine Fight begins and then you can spend as long as you like there. I would definitely recommend this festival and Stoke Travel to anyone.
Went to San Vino this year and had a blast. The stoke team was just that, frothing on pure stoke! Crazy times in the small traditional village and the campsite was on point! Already signed up for Tomatina and next year’s San vino. Cheers to the Stoke team.
Stoke was everything and more!! The staff are awesome and really want everyone to have a good time and meeting people from all around the world to party with is so cool. Great food, sick set up and good prices! AAAA+
Good music and mellow vibes. All the staff were welcoming and great to talk to. They really wanted people to have a good time and party their pants off.
Great party atmosphere which got everyone excited. I loved every minute of it!
Our group had a rad time at San Vino, thanks Stoke Travel for organising it all.
Amaaaazing! Thanks Stoke Travel for getting me soaking wet in wine!
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