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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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Succession Ready
Founder-led brands at transition points—second-generation involvement, legacy planning, or professionalization—creating natural catalysts for partnership and investment.
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Transition Timing
Succession readiness signifies founder openness to growth partnerships and professional expertise. These transition moments provide brands access to capital, strategic guidance, and networks needed to accelerate growth while preserving founder legacy and company culture.
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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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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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Vinabani
Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.
Malaya Martynovka 🇷🇺
Research in Progress
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 🇷🇺
$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 🇷🇺
$5-10M
REVENUE
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$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 🇷🇺