What Wines and Spirits Does Bovin Winery Produce?

Bovin Winery produces red, white, rosé, and dessert wines, plus grape and cherry brandies. Its wines are grouped into four tiers — Classic, Superior, Premium, and Dessert — and about 70% of production is red wine, with the remaining 30% white. The winery is based in the Negotino wine region, part of North Macedonia's Tikves wine region, and bottles its wines in 0.75 l format.

Wine categories

Bovin sorts its wines into four categories, which also signal where each bottle sits in the range:

Examples of specific wines

The winery's own selection lists these bottles, among others:

• Ana Marija Rosé — a rosé classified under Classic Wines
• Vranec Late Harvest — a red dessert wine
• Traminec Late Harvest — a white dessert wine
• Premier — listed as a red wine

Vranec and Traminec are the grape varieties named for the two late harvest bottlings, so if you already know you like those varieties, those are the two dessert wines to look at first.

Spirits and brandies

Beyond wine, Bovin produces brandies: a premium brandy line plus grape and cherry brandies. These sit alongside the wine range rather than inside the Classic–Premium–Dessert classification, which applies to wines only.

How the wines are made

Bovin states that about 80% of its wine comes from its own vineyards, with the remaining 20% from selected vine plantations. The vineyards are farmed with environmentally friendly practices and, per the winery, are protected only once or twice at most during the growing season. Fermentation is carefully controlled and the wines are made with modern equipment in what Bovin describes as its own production style.

The winery's total capacity is 1.5 million bottles, and its wines are sold only in 0.75 l bottles.

Track record

Bovin was established in 1998, the year it produced 120,000 bottles of white and red wine. It was the first privately built winery in Macedonia. Its red wines took the Champion title at the Agro-Expo Fair in Skopje for seven years — with "Venus," then "Dissan" (2001–2003), then "Daron" (2004–2005). Earlier, at the 1999 and 2000 fairs, "Venus" won the red wine Champion title while the other wines took gold medals.

If you want to check current bottles or prices

Bovin publishes a price list at bovin.mk/price-list/, which is the place to confirm which wines and brandies are currently offered and at what price. Availability and pricing are not fixed in the material above, so treat the price list — not this overview — as the current source.