Svishtov Winery Inc.

About Svishtov Winery Inc.

Svishtov Winery Inc. has been established in 1948 as a successor of the State Spirit Monopoly. It is a modern winemaking enterprise, located in the Eastern part of Svishtov on 5.5 ha area where the main facilities of company are built.

There are primary winemaking and aging facilities with total capacity of 10 000 tons. Company possesses grape processing and winemaking equipment that ensures technological process of wine producing. A bottling line with capacity of 2500 bottles per hour is mounted in the bottling hall. Besides, on the operation area there are a finished products warehouse, a warehouse for resources and supplementary materials for wine bottling and packaging, a workshop, a steam-generator, a checkpoint building, a weighbridge, laboratory, etc.

Besides winemaking, the company runs a 430 hectare vineyard of its own, as the main varieties planted are Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. An 80 hectare vineyard from the whole 430 ha was planted in 2000 and 2001 with French planting material, supplied by Mercier Company. Some of the varieties planted are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Gamay Noir. The company controls grape growing in its own vineyards thus, ensuring the produce of high quality wines of controlled and guaranteed origin.

The Company produces high quality varietal wines from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes, and since 2006 - Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Wines are traded on domestic and international markets. Wines sold on domestic market comprise 15% of total volume sold and the rest 85 % are traded on foreign markets. The most important markets are: United Kingdom – the wholesaler on the British market is Winez Ltd., London, which is an affiliate of Svishtov Winery Inc. Our wines are traded in some renowned supermarket chains, such as Safeway, Tesco, Co-operative Group, Booker Cash & Carry, etc. Russia – a wide range of dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet and fortified white and red wines that please the taste of the quickly developing Russian market. Besides, our wines are well-known in Poland, Germany and Scandinavia.

Because of the interest claimed by merchants from Belarus, Kazahstan, China and Vietnam, we have planned an invasion of our wines on these markets in the close future.