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Levokumskoye
237-year-old Stavropol flagship (1788) undergoing complete 2022 reconstruction and 700ha→1,200ha expansion.
Stavropol Krai 🇷🇺
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Usadba Sarkel
Reviving 1,400-year-old Khazar winemaking site and Pushkin-era 'Kazachka' sparkling tradition with Forbes Top 100 recognition.
Tsimlyansk 🇷🇺
Profiled
Uzunov
Four generations: Soviet workers → Fanagoria Chief Winemaker (35 years) → Russia's first family farm license → both sons involved.
Posyolok Sennoy 🇷🇺
Research in Progress
Vinabani
Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.
Malaya Martynovka 🇷🇺
$60-80M
REVENUE
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Abrau-Durso
In 1870, Tsar Alexander II issued an imperial decree creating what would become Russia's answer to Champagne.
Novorossiysk 🇷🇺
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Derbent Cognac Factory
₽2.7B spirits producer specializing in cognac and brandy, with minor wine production for local Dagestan markets.
Derbent 🇷🇺
Derbent Wine Factory
Russia's leading sparkling wine producer, commanding 2,300 hectares in Dagestan's ancient terroir—every fifth bottle of Russian sparkling wine comes from Derbent.
Derbent 🇷🇺
$80-100M
REVENUE
Featured
Fanagoria Estate Winery
Russia's largest winery by vineyard area doesn't just grow grapes—it operates a Beijing flagship store, ships 800,000 bottles annually to China, and produces wines scoring 80-97 Robert Parker points from its own cooperage's Old Russian Oak barrels.
Sennoy 🇷🇺
Profiled
Inkerman
Fifty-five thousand square meters of cathedral-like chambers carved into Inkerman Mountain, where ancient stone quarries became Soviet sparkling wine cellars.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Profiled
Kuban-Vino
Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point.
Temryuk 🇷🇺
Profiled
Massandra
Prince Lev Golitsyn—the nobleman who introduced méthode champenoise to Russia—founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars.
Yalta 🇷🇺
Profiled
Millstream
Founded in 1936 during Stalin's industrialization drive, Millstream survived what most Soviet-era projects couldn't: Nazi occupation of Crimea, Soviet recapture devastation, and decades of infrastructure chaos.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
Profiled
Myskhako
Founded in 1869 by Fyodor Geyduk—one year before Tsar Alexander II decreed Abrau-Durso's creation—Myskhako stands as Russia's third-oldest winery.
Novorossiysk 🇷🇺
Featured
Novyi Svet
Prince Lev Golitsyn didn't just introduce méthode champenoise to Russia—he chose Novyi Svet in 1878 to prove Crimean terroir could rival Champagne.
Sudak 🇷🇺
Profiled
Tsimlyansk Wines
Red sparkling wine sounds like a marketing gimmick—unless you're in the Don Valley, where Cossacks have made it from Tsimlyansky Cherny grapes since the 18th century.
Tsimlyansk 🇷🇺
Profiled
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