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The Marandi winery
The Marandi winery

A short drive from Baku, Marandi is one of Azerbaijan’s foremost new-breed wineries, welcoming to visitors and producing a growing range of well-balanced wines, many grown in the Fireland vineyards that lie on the Absheron Peninsula between two salt lakes, close to some intriguing mud volcanoes. In all, some 15 grape varieties are now cultivated...

Goygol winery
Goygol winery

The residents of Helenendorf, now Goygol, laid the foundations for Azerbaijan’s modern wine industry. It all began in 1860, when a local man called Christopher Vohrer expanded his vineyards into a family business which within a generation grew into Azerbaijan’s largest wine producer, and the first to export to Europe. Together with...

Az-Granata winery
Az-Granata winery

In the small town of Agsu, Az-Granata’s giant modern plant processes a wide range of fruits into wines, liqueurs and juices. The word ‘granat’ from which the winery takes its name means ‘pomegranate’ in Russian (the word is ‘nar’ in Azerbaijani), and indeed a major product here is pomegranate wine, as well as...

Sharg Ulduzu
Sharg Ulduzu

Close to Shamkir, backed by starkly arid hills, is the Sharg-Ulduzu winery. Meaning ‘Star of the East’, Sharg-Ulduzu produces a range of dry red single grape wines (Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Merlot, Saperavi) along with blends in which a traditional cooling technique stops fermentation to produce low-alcohol semi-sweet wines...

Savalan Wines
Savalan Wines

In the short decade since its founding in 2007, Savalan has become one of Azerbaijan’s most popular and widely distributed ranges of premium quality wine. The winery conjures up attractive imagery of crystal-clear Caucasian mountain streams watering its sunbathed vines which cover very considerable areas of rolling terroir south of the...

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