Four buyers interested in Vrsacki vinogradi - Company in pre-bankruptcy procedure expect record wine sale since 2010

(Combine in 20h harvests 15ha wine yard) Grape has this year as well provided fruit on 1.143 ha at Vršački vinogradi. Former wine giant of Serbia has started these days resembling itself at the times of success and solid profit, some 300 seasonal workers have been hired for harvest and one combine and this year’s sale will be record one in the past five years.

Vrsac-based company expects 4,5 to 5,5 tons of grape per hectare from this year’s harvest. After completion, bankruptcy follows which, they believe, will generate healthy company.

Nebojsa Misic, acting company’s GM says for eKapija that four investors have been interested in privatization so far.

-The responsible ones will define the value, however, since there is that kind of interest, it tells the auction will be very interesting.

Despite difficult business challenges, production operates with full capacity, Misic says so tone thing is company status and another one wine quality, image and what they achieve at the market. Only in the last month and a half, 800.000 l of bottled wine have been sold so Vinogradi expect record sale in the past five years.

- As of the beginning of the year, we are at some 2,5 million liters and by the end of 2015, we will most likely exceed 4 m which was planned – our collocutor says, mentioning that the best period for the sale of this drink is yet to come.

"Banatski rizling" is the most wanted one again and they are stepping out at the market with the new concept of producing wines for HoReCa - with "Paralela" with the label "601" which will comprise the most quality wines which will not be available in retail: "Burgundac beli", "Muskant Otonel", "Mesecev rizling" and "Frankovka".

Solid harvest
Due to tough draught which lasted for 2,5 months, there will be smaller quantities of grape at Vrsaci vinogradi than previous years but quality and sugar quantity will be higher, the company says.

- We have been in transition for a long time and wine years have decreased in capacity. With an average harvest of 4,5 to 5,5 tons of grape per hectare, we expect 3,5 tons of wine per hectare.

The Czechs, Russians and Chinese which were also interested in privatization are interested in wine from Vrsacki vinogradi. Chinese market has already received 200.000 bottles while the biggest export is still to neighboring countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, etc.

On 1.143 ha in Vrsacki vinogradi 14 kinds of grape are grown. Last decade was featured with the most difficult period of company existence – canceled privatization, failed sales, lay-offs, etc.

Grape ball event

This weekend, September 17-20, Vrsac hosted 58th Days of grape harvest event in the honor of grape, wine and wine yards which has been celebrated for more than half a century.

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Vršački vinogradi a.d Vršac

wine production

grape harvest Nebojša Mišić

Burgundac beli

Muskant Otonel

Mesečev rizling

Frankovka

Dani berbe Grožđa 2015

Grožđenbal 2015

privatization Vršački vinogradi

stečaj

grožđe

Banatski rizling

Paralela Vršački vinogradi

label 601