The Grape Throwing Festival is held annually during the last weekend in the September in the wine-growing village of Binnissalem, Mallorca. The festival celebrates the grape harvest and the main attractions include the grape-stomping competition, grape-throwing fight and lots of fun.



Although the history of this event is somewhat lost through the ages, it seems to have its roots in ensuring the good harvest season by removing the “not so good” grapes before the winter. The event started as the harvest celebration when the people had no idea what to do with the grapes that were not good enough to make wine from.



This festival is for sure the messy celebration but can also be the lot of fun.  The festival last two for entire 2 weeks with almost daily fights as well as the grape treading competition and certainly, lots of wine! Mallorca Grape Throwing Festival is the only Grape Throwing fight in the world, yet is seems to be less prominent than many other food fights.

The Village of the Binissalem is surrounded by the Vineyards and the festival rejoicing the annual grape harvest attracts over the thousands of visitors each year. The participants assemble in the central square of the village and wait for the organisers to fire the rocket. With this starting signal the crowd follows the traditional piper out into the field outside the village and gathers around the large heap of grapes. At the whistle blow, everyone starts the sweet and juicy of throwing grapes at each other.