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).
WINE FIGHT 2025 DATES:
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, STARTING AT €80 A NIGHT (2 NIGHT MINIMUM)*
STOKE TRAVEL’S More-INCLUSIVE SAN VINO PACKAGES INCLUDE:
🏕️ 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.
*(dates and costs for 2025 combo packages to be confirmed)
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.
What is the Haro Wine Fight?
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.
Camping at the Wine Fight
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.
A wine fight in La Rioja, Spain
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.
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Itinerary
The beauty about Stoke is we don’t tie you down with strict itineraries to follow so this is a rough guide to your time at San Vino.
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June 26
From 11:00am – Arrive at our San Vino campsite for check-in
8:00pm – 10:00pm – Local cheese and wine tasting with Swallow Don’t Spit Wine Tours
10:00pm – late – The party goes ham in town, let’s take a five-minute stroll into the village and have a bar crawl, listen to live music, dance with the entire town and really immerse ourselves in Spanish fiesta culture
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June 28
10:00am -12:00 (noon) – Bottomless mimosas and brunch is served at campsite
All Day – Chill by the pool, explore the village, visit some of the world’s best wineries, eat in one of the many restaurants, or drink in the bar – including those at the campsite itself
8:30pm – Foreplay Party and then we go into town to party with the locals (they go all night)
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June 29
6:00am – 7:30am – Quickie breakfast snacks, grab and go on your way to the bus!
Around 8:00am – Grab the bus, walk up the hill and partake in enormous wine fight.
Afternoon – Chill out, get showered and de-purple yourself whilst enjoying our unlimited beer and sangria.
12(Noon) – 2pm – Bottomless mimosas and hot brunch is served at the campsite!
Evening – Massive campsite party and onwards to the town centre to continue the festivities.
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June 30
10:00am – 12 (Noon) – Bottomless brunch at the Stoke Campsite
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 2019 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.
Campsite Address
Camping Haro Avenida de Miranda 1 26200 Haro La Rioja
How to get there
Take the bus from Madrid, Barcelona or San Sebastian on the June 28, 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.
If you accidentally trip and fall in a deep puddle of wine, the only other option apart from drowning is to drink your way to survival.
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What should I bring?
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Sunglasses and sunscreen as it gets pretty hot, a pillow and torch for your tent, goggles, condoms, a waterproof camera, swimmers to have a dip in the pool afterwards, old shoes that can be thrown out after the madness, and shampoo if you don’t want your hair stained red for the next month. Oh and don’t forget a towel.
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Are there hot showers to wash off my wine-stained body parts?
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Sí, there are showers at the campsite and we highly encourage a rinse off at the end of the day, before you climb in your tent and turn everything you touch purple. You’ll also smell like vinegar at this point which greatly decreases your chance of having someone join you in said purple tent.
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What do I wear? Do I need goggles?
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We sell white clothing (€40 for the whole kit) so your fave tee doesn’t turn permanently purple and goggles are also available for those who want to be able to see for the rest of their lives, but sunnies can do the job too.
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2 of us are vegans, do you cater for this?
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We always cater for vegetarians, so we can always just remove the animal-products and stuff you to the brim with fruits and veggies and starches…whatever we do, we’ll make a plan for you.
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Inclusions
Inclusive Camping Accommodation
Twin-share pre-erected tents with foam mats and sleeping bags
Brunch Buffet With Bottomless Mimosas
A tasty breakfast, vegetarians can be catered for
Open Beer, Wine & Sangria Bar (€15/day)
Completely open bar between 10am and 10pm
Campsite Parties
Epic campsite parties with DJ's and live international bands
Awesome Guides
The friendliest of Stokies to guide you throughout your trip
Red Wine
Red wine, your weapon of choice for throwing at the wine fight
Welcome Local Cheese & Wine
A welcome experience sampling the region's finest products
June 26 – July 13thSan Vino, Surf, San Fermin & BBKThe Whole Paella
Includes:
4 nights camping accommodation at San Vino
Breakfast daily with bottomless mimosas
Guides to the world’s best (only?) wine fight
Transfers from San Vino to the San Sebastian Surf House
5 nights accommodation at San Sebastian Surf House
5 days surf with board, wetsuit, and lessons provided
Breakfast, lunch and dinner at the Surf House
Transfers from the San Sebastian Surf House to our San Fermin Camp in Pamplona
5 nights camping accommodation at our San Fermin camp in Pamplona
Breakfast daily at Pamplona campsite
Awesome guides into the San Fermines festivities
Massive campsite party and festival vibes nightly
Bilbao BBK Live ticket
4 nights accommodation at BBK Live campsite with tent, sleeping bag and camping mat hired out at a 100 deposit – returned once you return the camping gear)
ADD ON
Unlimited beer and sangria at San Vino, the San Sebastian Surf House and San Fermin (€15/day)
BBK Solo tent upgrade (€30)
Party trips, pintxo tours, hiking, paintball, paragliding, horse riding, yoga, sidra house dinners, pub crawls, cliff jumping – contact surf@stoketravel.com for more information (dependent on availability)
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.
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Olivia
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.
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Niels
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+
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Holly
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.
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Jason
Great party atmosphere which got everyone excited. I loved every minute of it!
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Anne
Our group had a rad time at San Vino, thanks Stoke Travel for organising it all.
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Andre
Amaaaazing! Thanks Stoke Travel for getting me soaking wet in wine!
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