Founded in 2006, Armenia Wine is a family-run enterprise. Having big aspirations, the Mkrtchyan and Vardanyan families committed themselves to the immense work for the good of the Armenia winemaking.
In 2008, the construction started in the Sasunik village of Aragatsotn region. Today, the winery occupies a territory of 5 hectares.
Indeed, shortly afterwards the winery became a major tourist site which attracts both wine lovers and avid wine snobs.
The winery goes on expanding its territory, A church is being built now which will become the pearl of the architecturee complex of the whole Armenian Wine. After the blessing and the first mass, it will be officially handed over to the Mother See of Holy Echmiatsin.
Here, every single detail is trully beautiful and meaningful. Each building, ornament, column and arch takes us to the depths of the history, art, and the science of winemaking.
The official Armenia Wine logo is not an exception in this regard. Two powerful eagles symbolize the two founding families. The main symbol of Armenia, the Biblical Ararat, is also featured in the logo. The wings of the eagles convey the high aspirations and ambitions of the company, and the sun rises above it all as an irreplaceable satellite of winemaking. All these elements together form Latin letters A and W, to mean Armenia Wine.
“Discover Armenia in our wines”, this is the principal slogan of the company, which restates its mission of popularizing local wine production and bringing it to the international arena.
A highly qualified team, modern production technologies, high-quality stock and equipment, and, of course, thorough management by international consultants undoubtedly yield tangible results.
Jean-Baptiste Soula from Bordeaux, France, is the chief consultant of the company. He always takes challenges readily and with high sense of responsibility to create excellent wines in Armenia to express the deepest levels of spirituality and cultural strata.
“A sip of the sun in our wines” is yet another creed of the company. One can feel right that sip in the sparkling wines of Armenia Wine. World-class professional Paolo Piera from Rome, Italy, consults this line of production.
Having a high range of alcohol production, the company also impresses the world with its brandy (made in the cognac style). Olivier Chapt, a professional from Cognac, France, supervises this department.

Decent wine production always starts from grapevine, which is why love and care for vine is a key to success in winemaking. This “religion” is “preached” by Ruben Avagyan, the chief viticulturist of the company. He's been with the company since the very beginning, cultivating grapes with huge dedication and without sparing efforts.
The first vineyards were established in 2006. The winery now owns two large vineyards in Armavir and Aragatsotn regions of Armenia. At the same time, it purchases grapes from the other two regions – Ararat and Vayots Dzor.
Errorless grape selection is a priority for the company. Today, more than 15 local and international grape varieties are cultivated here.
The main red varieties are Areni, Haghtanak, Kakhet, Karmrahyut, Saperavi, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
The white varieties are led by Kangun to be followed by Voskehat, Rkatsiteli, Colombard and Muscat Ottonel.
The winery started a new project in 2017, aimed at growing organic grape for high-class wine production.
In 2017-2020, the company established 32 hectares of organic vineyards, 4 hectares of which were planted in 2017 and are covered with Merlot and Cabernet Franc. The remaining 28 hectares also are allocated to international varieties.
The vines for organic vineyards are imported from France and Italy and grafted on resistant American rootstocks to avoid the risk of phylloxera. At the same time, four hectares of vineyards are in the period of conversion (the process of switching to biodynamic viticulture).
The company’s production volumes are so large that besides self-owned massive vineyards it also purchases grapes from local farmers, making mutually beneficial long-term deals for decades. Over 600 farmers provide Armenia Wine with their grapes, which is why the wine can really be considered as genuinely Armenian: every sip of the wine contains the hard work of kind and fair farmers and the company’s professional team.
The company constantly manages the vine stress control through water sufficiency control.
The vineyards are equipped with a high-precision automatic drip irrigation system to save the water resources. The territory has two large freshwater reservoirs to ensure the irrigation needs are catered to.
The vineyards meet the highest standards, considering the peculiarities of the local terroir. Consequently, all the vineyards are maintained through European vine management system.
The exposition of the vineyards is predominantly flat with minor elevations located on 1070 m above the sea, whereas highest point reaches is up to 1850 m.
The high quantity of mineral and volcanic soils favorably influences the aroma of the wines. This is where the crispy freshness and mineral character of the white wines come from.
Due to the continental climate the vines are buried for winter, which starts in November, and the uncovering process starts in late February.
The 4 hectares of vineyards are covered with special nets of Italian production, to protect the plants from hailstorms, another “gift” from the local terroir.
During a visit to the vineyards, one can immediately notice a large number of shiny ribbons. The thing is that the ribbons are meant for fighting against the birds by slightly frightening them.
The first harvest took place in 2009. Harvesting is exclusively manual. It starts on around August 20 and lasts until November. The grapes should be transported from the harvest site to the winery during maximum 4 hours. 1.5 kg of grapes per vine are picked for the production of Super-Premium line, 2kg per vine – for the Premium one.
2014, 2018 and 2019 are considered the best years for the winery. 2020 vintage also gives high hopes for good quality wine production.

Armenia Wine is officially the leader among Armenian wines by the production volume - 4 million bottles of still wine, 1,5 million bottles of sparkling wine and 3,5 million bottles of brandy a year.
All this results from years of titanic work, perseverance and willpower. Armenia Wine does not only increase the production capacity every year, but also improves the production process, upgrades the equipment and qualification of its employees. This is how it reached the set goals and a high level of recognition.
Today, the company can boast its high-class technologies in every department and in every production phase.
The reception bunker is a modern, stainless steel equipment, produced by a French
company Bucher Vaslin.
Another product by Bucher Vaslin, the membrane press machine, helps avoid grape seed damage due to its unique gentle operation mode.
The two-storey fermentation tanks are of European production: the capacity of the first one is 18 tons and the second – 32 tons. The tanks are equipped with temperature control jackets for temperature automatic adjustment.
The Italian giants Fimer and Bertolaso provided the winery with two high-speed bottling lines: 3000 bottles per hour for bottling of brandy and vodka, 6000 bottles per hour – for still and sparkling wine.
The fermentation yeasts are imported from France.
The winery uses exsclusively French oak barriques. However, it has started using Artsakh oak barrels as well in very small quantities. The company simultaneously exploits 1,500 oak barrels.
Viсard is the provider of classical 225l barriques. Such world-famous famous companies as Mercier, Taransaud and Leroi provide the winery with oak barrels of 350-500 and 5000l for the ageing of brandy.
It's important to note that barrels for wine ageing are used for only three years in the company, and the barrels for brandy ageing for up to 50 years.
Armenia Wine cooperates with Diam Bouchage and Amorim Cork for the corks. For Premium and Super-Premium categories, whole wood corks are used, and the Premium-Popular and classical lines are corked with agglomerated ones.
The company boasts a spot in the estate with a special aura, which is given a status of almost a shrine. Here, every particle of the land, every pebble is filled with the mystery of the divine drink – it is the cellar.
The cellar of the winery is dug 6.5 m deep into a basalt rock, and named after the famous Armenian composer – Aram Khachaturyan. There are more than 1000 barrels of wine and brandy in the cellar, all kept in tranquility and peace. The melodies of the immortal works by the
great maestro can be heard through the silence.
In the whole winery routine, one can see a hard-working man, the frontman and the leading character on the stage of this wine theater. His virtuosity and professionalism accompanied with the melodies of Khachaturyan's Masquerade ballet are easily recognized in every sip of Armenia Wine. Grigor Aleksanyan is the chief enologist of the winery. An Armenian Agrarian University graduate, he continued his studies in Montpelier as an enologist-agronomist, got experienced in Burgundy and Cognac. His imagination is endless and the working style is admirable.
From the very beginning of the brand development, the company’s idea was to produce wine for every market segment. As a result, wines like Armenia, Nrani, Sevuk, Yerevan, Takar and Tariri entered the market.
Armenia line became the very first product of the winery, presented with vintage 2009, released to market only in 2010. Armenia Muscat semisweet 2013 was awarded a gold medal in Muscat Du Monde Contest.
Nazeni, Nrani and Sevuk lines belong to the category Premium-Popular. Yerevan and Takar are in the category Premium, and the first vintage of Takar was released in 2013.
In 2012, the winery presented Tariri in the Super-Premium category. In 2019 and 2020, Tariri dry white wine was twice awarded the “Best of Show Armenia” in Mundus Vini.
The wine label was specially designed in France. According to experts, this wine is the true expression of the perfect blend of Armenia and France, as there is an excellent assemblage of Armenian and French varieties.
Tariri is named after the Armenian King Menua the First’s daughter, to whom the king bequeathed all his vineyards. Consequently, the princess became the first lady in Armenia to be involved winemaking and wine business. The label also features a cuneiform script of Urartu's
king.
Any new project a company initiates is like raising of a child, needing special care and love. This is how the wines, especially the categories Premium and Super-Premium, are treated in Armenia Wine.
Wines of Premium and Super-Premium lines age in oak barrels; the grapes for this category wines are delivered to the winery in baskets inside the vehicles equipped with a cooling system. The grape selection process is entirely manual. For this category of wine, the grapes are
double selected through with the use of a vibration table.
Tariri wines are poured into French bottles; Yerevan wines bottles are imported from Russia, while for the Armenia line bottles of local production are used.
Armenia Wine Company pays a special attention to sparkling wine, producing them through Charmat method. The winery produces white and rose sparkling wine. White sparkling wine is made from Kangun and Rkatsiteli grapes, and for sparkling rose Areni is used. In 2020, the winery started producing sparkling wines using the classical method.
In 2009, Armenia Wine started producing pomegranate wines, one of the most extraordinary and, at the same time, successful projects of the company. The harvest of pomegranate starts in November.
The company receives the material from Artsakh and Meghri. Both skin and seeds are involved in the production process with the use of a gentle pressing technique. Grapes and pomegranate are vinified separately to be assembled later towards the end. Armenia, Nazani and
Yerevan are the main lines with pomegranate wine.
The pearl and the pride of the company is the brandy production (made in the cognac style) – “Grand Yerevan”. However, the brand is not available in the Armenian market. The company exports the whole 3, 5 and 7-year-old brandy.
Now the company is going to officially present 3, 5, 7 and 10-year-old brandy to the local consumers in 2021.
One of the future projects of the company is production of Armenian portwein in the style of Ruby Port. Produced from Haghtanak grape variety, it is aged in French oak barrels for three years and contains 19% alcohol.

Armenia Wine pays a special attention to social projects and wine tourism.
Over the whole period of its operation, the winery has become a unique touristic Mecca, attracting visitors with its original design and architecture solutions in the style of a medieval castle, made from Armenian dark red tuff.
Numerous arches, portals, colonnades crowned with pediments, porticos and various pilasters together feature an architecture masterpiece, giving the whole building the aura of a temple of wine.
Almost all the elements of the building are decorated with countless bas-reliefs and unrivalled ornaments in the wine thematic. Everything here is indeed soaked in wine and grapevine.
The winery receives over 7000 visitors annually, 60% of them being foreign guests, and 40% - local tourists.
The Armenia Wine complex boasts a popular restaurant Nazani serving dishes of national cuisine thus contributing to popularization of gastro-tourism in the country.
The company is engaged in the Grape Blessing celebrations and actively takes part in such festivals as Areni, Voskehat Fests, and Yerevan Wine Days.
Another pride of the company is construction of the first and one-of-a-kind Museum of Wine History in Armenia.
Besides, a library of wines with the owners’ private collection of books on winemaking and viticulture is being built.
Every year the winery organizes a special reception and dinner for its old friends – the local farmers who supply grapes to Armenia Wine.
Having a large number of employees from the neighboring villages, Armenia Wine thus creates job opportunities. To partially keep the workplaces, the winery has not switched to fully automatic bottling process.

Armenia Wine tops the list of the wine producing companies in Armenia by the volume of exported alcoholic beverages. The beverages are exported to over 26 countries. The biggest market for the product is the Russian Federation, followed by the United States, Canada, Mexica,
China, Japan, Poland, France, Belgium, Austria, UK, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Israel. 70% of the total production is exported.
The company is highly regarded overseas among consumers, and continues expanding to other markets.