While Ukraine may not be associated with winemaking, our vintners have plenty to surprise Western partners. With a history running deep to the era of Kyivan Rus and Crimea’s vineyards, winemaking in Ukraine has long-standing traditions. Ukrainian winemakers combine these traditions with modern technology to produce outstanding wines today. Ukraine offers a wide variety of flavours—from unique fruit-and-berry wines crafted with cherries, raspberries, and apples to rich dry and semi-dry options. Many of these wines come in elegant packaging with stylish labels, making them excellent gifts for business partners.
We’ve gathered recommendations from social media and spoke with winery owners to select the eleven best Ukrainian wineries for gifting.
1. Beykush Winery
A family-owned winery is located in the scenic village of Chornomorka in the Ochakiv district of the Mykolaiv region along the Black Sea coast. The vineyards occupy a unique location on Cape Beykush, flanked by the Berezan Estuary on one side and Beykush Bay on the other. The winery spans 11 hectares of vineyards, planted with French and Italian grape varieties. The white grapes include Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, and Rkatsiteli, while the red varieties include Pinot Noir, Merlot, Saperavi, and Cabernet Sauvignon.
This winery is home to an experimental vineyard with rare white grape varieties such as Telti-Kuruk, Alvarinho, and Timorasso, alongside red varieties like Tempranillo, Malbec, and Pinotage.
Their website offers a selection of curated wine sets, including the «Red Set, ” „Artania 3 in 1, ” and „Simply The Best.“ Ideal gift options include monovarietal and amphora-aged dry wines, dry Artania blends, aged wines from the „History“ series, or sweet wines from the „Passion collection.“
Prices start at 390 UAH for Beykush Chardonnay or Beykush Red and 455 UAH for Artania White and Artania Rosé. The most premium sets range between 1,420 UAH and 4,225 UAH. Discounts are available on the winery’s official website.
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2. Yanchyn Hills Family Winery
The family-owned winery Yanchyn Hills established its vineyard in 2019 in the village of Ivanivka, located in the Lviv region. The vineyard is home to around 800 vines of diverse grape varieties, including Oleg, Hurzufskyi Pink, Ruby Magaracha, Johanniter, Solaris, Muscaris, and Dubliansky.
What sets this winery apart is not just the quality of its wines but also the distinctive label designs. Prices start at 400 UAH per bottle for Biker (2022), Molfar (2023), Nirvana (2023), and Delight (2023). Their premium offerings, such as Saperavi Black (2021) and Diver (2020), are priced at 600 UAH. Orders of six or more bottles come with a 10% discount.
Where to buy:
- Yanchyn Hills Family Winery official website
3. Sass K. Winery
Sass K. Winery is also known as the Shosh Family Wine Cellar. Originally Hungarian, Karlo Karlovych Shosh, a third-generation winemaker, runs a private wine cellar in the village of Kidyosh, just five kilometres from Berehove in the Zakarpattia region. The Shosh family manages 7.5 hectares of vineyards, cultivating around 60 table and wine grape varieties. The wine is crafted with traditional techniques and matured in oak barrels, with Karlo relying on ancient recipes passed down through generations. Here are a few wines you shouldn’t miss:
Zsuzsika, You Are Sweet. A semi-sweet or sweet wine with a muscat aroma and fruity notes, crafted from a blend of ancient Chasselas grape varieties, both white and pink. It follows a secret family recipe created as a tribute to the winemaker’s wife, Zsuzsanna.
Ice Wine is an amber-hued sweet wine produced using traditional ice wine techniques with Riesling and Muscat grapes. It offers a rich flavour and an unforgettable bouquet.
Kidyosh Rose. This wine is made from the ancient Italian Traminer grape variety, a contemporary interpretation of the legendary «Zakarpattia Rose, ” which has not been officially produced since 1986.
Black Rose. An aromatic sweet red wine, a gem in the Shosh family collection. With a high alcohol content, it is sweetened with honey, infused with prunes, and blended from a selection of red grape varieties.
Holubok. A rich dry red wine with mild astringency, spicy flavours, and a velvety finish.
Where to buy:
- Sass K. Winery official website
4. Stakhovsky Wines
Serhiy Stakhovsky is a renowned Ukrainian tennis player and the founder and driving force behind a winemaking project in the village of Muzhievo in the Berehove district of Zakarpattia.
The Ace&W winery by Stakhovsky offers unique and handcrafted signature wines. With years of extensive experience in France, Stakhovsky chose to start his winemaking journey in Ukraine in late 2015. He leased 20 hectares of land for this and established vineyards featuring Merlot, Saperavi, and Pink Traminer grape varieties. The Stakhovsky Wines team carefully prepared the soil, replanted vines, and nurtured them until their first harvest in 2018.
The legendary tennis player’s winery collection includes «Ace by Stakhovsky» Merlot, «Ace by Stakhovsky» Saperavi, and «W by Stakhovsky» Traminer. The name «Ace» refers to a decisive serve in tennis, while «W» stands for «Win».
Wine prices start at 357 UAH for Traminer 2022 and 420 UAH for Traminer 2021 or Chardonnay 2022. The official website offers wine bundles, such as the «Orange Set» with three bottles for 2,620 UAH or the «2021Red Set» with six bottles for 2,905 UAH. The online store occasionally offers discounts.
Where to buy:
- Stakhovsky Wines official website
5. Frumushika-Nova Family Winery 1813
Until 1946, the Palariev family ran a successful winemaking business in the Moldovan village of Frumushika-Nova. However, in the spring of that year, the residents of Frumushika-Nova and five neighbouring villages were forced to leave their homes when Soviet authorities repurposed the area for a military training ground.
In the summer of 2006, Oleksandr Palariev decided to return to his roots. On the former training ground site, he built the ethnographic complex Frumushika-Nova, which not only became a centre for eco-tourism and family recreation but also a place for the rebirth of the Palariev family’s winemaking tradition. Today, the modern Frumushika-Nova Family Winery produces more than 35,000 bottles of wine annually.
The winery’s standout offering is the «Not Filtered Wine» collection, which skips filtration before bottling to preserve its full-bodied flavour and vibrant aroma.
Wines are priced from 349 UAH to 399 UAH. The winery also produces strong spirits and liqueurs, such as 0.75L Rakia (grape vodka) for 400 UAH and an assortment of fruit-based infusions, including raspberry, blackcurrant, strawberry, plum, sloe, lemon, pear, cherry, and apple. Traditional options like Khrenovukha (horseradish-infused vodka) and Pertsivka (pepper-infused vodka) are also available, each priced at 400 UAH per 0.75L.
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6. Father’s Wine
Over a decade ago, Volodymyr Buyachok, an entrepreneur from Husyatyn in the Ternopil region, laid the groundwork for a successful winery by planting the first vines of 40 technical grape varieties. Many varieties were uncommon for Ukrainian winemaking, but Buyachok aimed to explore the region’s potential for crafting distinctive wines. His experiment paid off and in 2010, he officially established the winery. By 2019, he obtained a license for small wineries, becoming the first winemaker in the Ternopil region to produce wines from his own vineyard. Since 2021, Father’s Wine has been exporting its products to Estonia, Georgia, and Japan, with upcoming launches in the USA and Sweden.
Prices start at 350 UAH per bottle, and wine sets are available from 1,110 UAH. The bottle labels were designed by renowned Ukrainian illustrator Serhiy Maidukov, giving each bottle a distinctive style.
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7. Hata.wine
Maksym and Hennadiy Kuzminskiy’s family-run winery creates unique craft wines using currants and gooseberries. Their 2-hectare berry plantation is located in the village of Bilenshchyna in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The winery offers a selection of eight wines made exclusively from these berries.
Prices start at 240 UAH for «Kolosok» and «Paper Airplane» wines. Wines «Minivintse» and «Pukhnate» are priced at 280 UAH, while the semi-dry redcurrant wine «Prominets» and the semi-sweet gooseberry wine «Solomyane» cost 320 UAH. A tasting set of craft wines is available for 460 UAH.
Where to buy:
- Hata.wine official website
8. Halytska Soroka
Since 2011, Orest and Yuliia Deineka have grown raspberries, gradually transitioning from fresh berries to crafting fruit-based wines and tea rose jam. Their farm, Halytska Soroka, located in the Lviv region, spans 2.5 hectares and produces raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, and chokeberries. A unique feature of their farm is a large tea rose (rugosa rose) plantation, one of the largest in western Ukraine.
For business partners, Halytska Soroka offers a unique «Grand Gift Box, ” an elegant set featuring a bottle of wine and three varieties of jam, priced at 700 UAH.
Where to buy:
- Halytska Soroka official website
9. Kohanovska Winery
This boutique winery, founded in 2023 in the Carpathian village of Kvasy, specializes in natural sparkling wines crafted using the Pet Nat method. With a selection of seven varieties, the winery offers high-quality, natural craft wines at an average price of 250 UAH per bottle, making them an accessible choice for wine enthusiasts.
Where to buy:
- Kohanovska Winery official website
10. GIGI winery
GIGI Winery was founded in 2010 by Vinnytsia businessman and building professional Volodymyr Gihineishvili, who discovered a new passion in winemaking. Inspired by his Georgian roots and extensive winemaking knowledge, he passionately set out to revive the winemaking tradition in Podillia, launching wine production that has since grown into a modern winery with a laboratory and professional storage facilities.
GIGI Winery wines are priced between 330 UAH and 980 UAH per bottle.
Where to buy:
- GIGI winery official website
11. GRAEVO. A Craft Winery
Located in the historic heart of Zaporizhzhia on Upper Khortytsia, this winery is surrounded by iconic landmarks, including the 700-year-old oak tree and the famous Khortytsia Island. Wine production began here in 2014, with red, white, and rosé varieties crafted using equipment from leading Italian manufacturers.
Wine prices start at 220 UAH per bottle, with the premium Bouschet 2021, aged in a combination of oak barrels priced at 1,500 UAH per bottle.
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