MENADA Winery & Vineyards

Domain Menada is one of the oldest wine cellars in Bulgaria. It was established in 1901 under the name Loza Cooperative. The company owns over 426 ha of lush vineyards. The cellar has the capacity to process over 8000 tons of white and red grapes and produces 20 million of bottles per year. In 2002, it became part of the French holding Belvedere, renamed Marie Brizard Wine and Spirits in 2015. The vineyards are situated at the foothills of the Sredna Gora mountain range, among the villages of Elhovo, Gorno Botevo and Mogilovo, and amount to 375 ha. The Domain grows and works with traditional grape varieties such as Rubin and Mavrud, as well as popular foreign grapes such as Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Chardonnay, Regent, Viognier, and others. "We take special care of our vineyards. Our Domain is equipped to produce top quality wines, matured in French oak barrels of the highest quality." Some of the most widely recognized brands of our winery are Tcherga, Tcherga 10 and Menada. In 2017, our cellar released a limited wine collection called Barrique Point, the new Artistique wine line, and a consumer-crafted wine called InoVino. Our cellar also produces the famous mastic and mint liqueur Zaarska and has recently resumed the production of grape brandy Diadova Usukanitza (“Grandpa’s Twist”). In 2004, the winery was fully modernized. Today, it includes a winery for primary wine production, facilities for wine stabilization, bottling and packaging. We also have our own in-house laboratory to analyze the wines during all stages of production.