$1-9M
REVENUE
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Lhamour
Twelve days after opening, thieves stole everything. Khulan caught the thief at the airport herself, survived three floods, built Mongolia's natural beauty export leader
Ulaanbaatar 🇲🇳
Premium Positioning
Brands positioned in upper market segments with superior quality, distinctive attributes, and prices above category averages.
18 Brands
Margins That Matter
Premium brands deliver superior unit economics, customer lifetime value, and insulation from price competition. These players command pricing power through differentiation, quality, and brand equity—the foundation of sustainable profitability.
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Château Sort
Lefkadia alumnus pioneering 1m x 1.5m ultra-dense planting and monosortovye (single varietal) wines in premium restaurants.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
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Shumrinka
Decanter World Wine Awards winner combining Serbian Probus grapes, drone monitoring, and traditional handwork at scale.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Research in Progress
Skalisty Bereg
ArchDaily Building of the Year 2021 finalist: Architectural landmark gravity-flow winery with 2022 debut vintage.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
Research in Progress
Usadba Sarkel
Reviving 1,400-year-old Khazar winemaking site and Pushkin-era 'Kazachka' sparkling tradition with Forbes Top 100 recognition.
Tsimlyansk 🇷🇺
Profiled
Elbuzd
A tax office worker with no business experience financed Russia's first three-level gravitational winery through bank loans at 24% interest.
Azovsky District 🇷🇺
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Galitskiy & Galitskiy
After building Russia's largest retail chain, Forbes billionaire Sergey Galitskiy turned to wine as his legacy project.
Gostalgaevskaya
$60M+
REVENUE
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SUGAR Cosmetics
Rejected ₹1 crore after two failures. Third startup reached $500M. Solved what L'Oréal overlooked: makeup for India's diverse skin tones.
Mumbai 🇮🇳
Profiled
Usadba Mezyb
The Russian Orthodox Church spent eight years preparing to enter premium wine production, then launched with a winemaker who became Russia's 'Winemaker of the Year' 2024.
Between Divnomorskoye and Djankhot, Mezyb River
Research in Progress
Château Le Grand Vostock
When French winemaker Frank Duseigneur arrived in Krasnodar in 2003, Russia's wine industry was still stuck in Soviet bulk production.
Sadovy 🇷🇺
$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 🇷🇺
$80-100M
REVENUE
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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 🇷🇺
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Kuban-Vino
Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point.
Temryuk 🇷🇺
$5-10M
REVENUE
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Profiled
Massandra
Prince Lev Golitsyn—the nobleman who introduced méthode champenoise to Russia—founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars.
Yalta 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
$10-20M
REVENUE
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Vedernikov Winery
A single bottle sold for 750,000 rubles at auction—a record for Russian wine.
Konstantinovsk 🇷🇺
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Cashed out $548M days before Lehman collapsed, then bet $110M on Russian terroir everyone ignored—achieving World's Best Vineyards Top 30 in 15 years.
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The 750,000-Ruble Bottle That Changed Everything
Vedernikov's indigenous varieties achieved Champagne-level recognition—750,000-ruble auction proving obscurity is advantage.