Belvedere opens Svilengrad area wine cellar

Dnevnik.bg

The Bulgarian unit of French wine and spirits group Belvedere Monday unveiled its Katarzyna Estate wine chateau in Mezek, a village close to the Bulgarian-Greek border in the Svilengrad region.

The 12 euro wine-producing property is surrounded by company-owned vineyards.

Katarzyna Estate comprises 365 ha of cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, shiraz, mavrud, ruby cabernet, chardonnay and sauvignon blanc vineyards and several experimental lots with malbec and tempranillo.

The wine cellar has an annual processing capacity of 2,000 tons.

The owner will aim to establish Katarzyna Estate as a stalwart producer of premium wines.

In 2004, Belvedere Bulgaria started a vineyard-planting program financed by the company itself and by the EBRD and EU structural funds.

Belvedere's Bulgarian arm owns the Sakar, Domaine Menada and Oriahovitsa wineries, as well as Vinimpex, the former Bulgarian wine export monopoly.