All started in 2020 with love. Love for the region, love for the nature, love for each other. Vesselin Doychev and Irina Sofranova matched at once. The idea of both: she, being a wine journalist and lecturer (graduated WSET) for the last 8 years, to choose grapes and styles and he: bringing his family wine growing and making tradition into a different perspective to transfer all into wine. The project focus is producing wine from the Balkans, with no intervention (except love), fermenting / maturing all in Cretan amphoras. Every year the base are Bulgarian indigenous varieties, blended with one or more
from neighbouring countries (Greece, Republic of north Macedonia, Romania, Turkey…)
• In 2021 the main players were the grapes from organic, old Rkatsiteli vineyard and the inherited local
plot of Karlvo Misket. The Balkan player: Assyrtiko
• In 2022 the same vineyard of Rkatsiteli in Central Bulgaria became an own vineyard, and will play
around with Keratsuda and two Greeks: Assyrtiko and Xinomavro
• In 2023 we plan to start with the building of an own environmentally friendly designed nordic style
winery, near Plovidv