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Antonenko Family Winery
Family hobby-to-business transition with two Anapa tasting rooms and full family operational involvement.
Anapa 🇷🇺
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Premium wineries producing distinctive varieties that express unique terroir and viticultural traditions. These winemakers blend traditional knowledge with modern techniques, creating complex and expressive wines that showcase regional character and innovative approaches.
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Undiscovered Terroir
Premium wines from emerging regions offer quality-to-price advantages before global markets fully recognize their potential. These wineries provide early access to terroirs that could become the next sought-after appellations.
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AYA Organic Vineyards
Russia's first mandatory organic certification (2024), 'Wine Roads of Russia' winner—exceptional quality on disputed Crimean territory.
Rodnoye 🇷🇺
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Château André
28 French research trips over 6 years, Austrian consultant, authentic Provence château, daughter managing father's succession.
Khutor Shkolny 🇷🇺
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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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Dva Romana
Two friends named Roman (lawyer + engineer) running a 5,000-bottle nano-winery with entirely manual production.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
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Isa Musaev Winery
'Best sommelier/winemaker of Dagestan' making 5 ultra-premium wines integrated with Caspian wine tourism.
Dagestan 🇷🇺
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Krinitsa
French enologist (now Russian citizen) + young Russian winemaker = Double Gold Terravino 2024 winner with gravity-flow facility.
Krasnodar Krai 🇷🇺
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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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Marko
Grandfather's 20-year passion project: Stavropol's sixth farm winery with ungrafted Krasnostop vines, named for grandson Mark.
Stavropol Krai 🇷🇺
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Shumrinka
Decanter World Wine Awards winner combining Serbian Probus grapes, drone monitoring, and traditional handwork at scale.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
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Skalisty Bereg
ArchDaily Building of the Year 2021 finalist: Architectural landmark gravity-flow winery with 2022 debut vintage.
Krasnodar 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
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Villa Zvezda
The winemaker incubator: Co-founders later launched Usadba Sarkel (Forbes Top 100) and Vinabani (30+ autochthon varieties).
Konstantinovsk 🇷🇺
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Vinabani
Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.
Malaya Martynovka 🇷🇺
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Belbek
A ceramic artist from Sevastopol planted experimental vines in 2012. Three years later, his Cabernet Sauvignon won Grand Prix as Russia's 'Best Red Wine.'
Fruktovoe village, Belbek River valley 🇷🇺
Dacha Serdyuka
Ten kilometers from where the Krasnostop Zolotovsky grape was born, Sergey Serdyuk makes Russia's only wine without sulfur dioxide.
Kanygin village (vineyards), Novocherkassk (production) 🇷🇺
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Domaine Lipko
A lawyer and Florida-trained golf professional turned winemaker on a Crimean Paleolithic archaeological site.
Sevastopol, Balaklava district, Chernaya River valley 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
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Yaila
Russia's first still wine from Pinot Meunier. First orange wines from Kokur. First bourbon barrel aging.
Sevastopol (winery), Gurzuf terroirs (vineyards) 🇷🇺
Domaine Côtes de Saint-Daniel
Sennoy 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
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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
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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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Inkerman
Fifty-five thousand square meters of cathedral-like chambers carved into Inkerman Mountain, where ancient stone quarries became Soviet sparkling wine cellars.
Sevastopol 🇷🇺
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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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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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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 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
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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 🇷🇺
$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 🇷🇺
Profiled
Complete Directory
Searchable listing of all brands in the Wine sector
| Brand | City | Region | Size | Year | Production | Founder | Website | Ver | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkerman | Sevastopol | Crimea | Large | 1961 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Vinabani | Malaya Martynovka | Rostov Oblast | 1970 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Vedernikov Winery | Konstantinovsk | Rostov Oblast | Medium | 1970 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Uzunov | Posyolok Sennoy | Temryuk district, Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar Krai | Small | 2008 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Villa Zvezda | Konstantinovsk | Rostov Oblast | 2000 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Myskhako | Novorossiysk | Krasnodar Krai | Medium | 1869 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| AYA Organic Vineyards | Rodnoye | Crimea | 2010 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Abrau Light | Novorossiysk | Krasnodar Krai | Micro | 2018 | 500,000 | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Yaila | Sevastopol (winery), Gurzuf terroirs (vineyards) | Crimea | Small | 2012 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Zolotaya Balka | Sevastopol | Crimea | Large | 1889 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Dacha Serdyuka | Kanygin village (vineyards), Novocherkassk (production) | Rostov Oblast, Ust-Donetsky district | 2003 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Tsimlyansk Wines | Tsimlyansk | Rostov Oblast | Medium | 1966 | — | — | — | Listed | |
| Vinodelie Belbek | Fruktovoe | Crimea | Small | 2014 | 950,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Abrau-Durso | Novorossiysk | Krasnodar Krai | Large | 1870 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Belbek | Fruktovoe village, Belbek River valley | Sevastopol, Crimea | 2012 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Derbent Cognac Factory | Derbent | Dagestan | Large | 1960 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Krinitsa | Krasnodar Krai | Krasnodar (southernmost terroir) | 2016 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Lefkadia Valley | Moldavanskoe | Krasnodar Krai | Small | 2006 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Levokumskoye | Stavropol Krai | Stavropol | 1788 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Château Sort | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | 2015 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Dva Romana | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | 2016 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Isa Musaev Winery | Dagestan | Dagestan Republic | 2010 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Marko | Stavropol Krai | Stavropol | 2023 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Usadba Mezyb | Between Divnomorskoye and Djankhot, Mezyb River | Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai | 2015 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Millstream | Sevastopol | Crimea | Medium | 1936 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Novyi Svet | Sudak | Crimea | Medium | 1878 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Skalisty Bereg | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | 2021 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Château Tamagne | Taman | Krasnodar Krai | Small | 2006 | 1,000,000 | — | — | u | Listed |
| Usadba Divnomorskoe | Divnomorskoe | Krasnodar Krai | Small | 2009 | 1,750,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Shumrinka | Krasnodar | Krasnodar Krai | Medium | 2016 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Domaine Lipko | Sevastopol, Balaklava district, Chernaya River valley | Crimea | 2017 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Galitskiy & Galitskiy | Gostalgaevskaya | Krasnodar Krai, Anapa District | 2016 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Kuban-Vino | Temryuk | Krasnodar Krai | Large | 1956 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Fanagoria Estate Winery | Sennoy | Krasnodar Krai | Large | 1957 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Domaine Côtes de Kacha | Kacha | Crimea | Micro | 2013 | 675,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Vinodelie Bakhchisaray | Bakhchisaray | Crimea | Micro | 2006 | 465,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Sauk-Dere | Krymsk | Krasnodar Krai | Medium | 1926 | 4,200,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Massandra | Yalta | Crimea | Large | 1894 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Vinodelie Kacha Valley | Andreevskoye | Crimea | Small | 2011 | 1,050,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Vinodelie Saperavi | Sevastopol | Crimea | Micro | 2014 | 540,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Vinodelie Voskresenskoe | Anapa | Krasnodar Krai | Micro | 2009 | 520,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Vinodelie Yuzhniy Bereg | Yalta | Crimea | Micro | 2015 | 420,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Yubileynaya | Taman | Krasnodar Krai | Micro | 1995 | 600,000 | — | — | Listed | |
| Crimean Wine Factory | Simferopol | Crimea | Small | 1926 | 1,100,000 | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Château Le Grand Vostock | Sadovy | Krasnodar Krai | Medium | 2003 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Domaine Côtes de Saint-Daniel | Sennoy | Krasnodar Krai | Medium | 2007 | — | — | — | u | Listed |
| Antonenko Family Winery | Anapa | Krasnodar Krai | 2010 | — | — | Visit | Listed | ||
| Derbent Wine Factory | Derbent | Dagestan | Medium | 1895 | — | — | Visit | Listed | |
| Usadba Sarkel | Tsimlyansk | Rostov Oblast | 2010 | — | — | Visit | Listed |
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