A Ukrainian natural-wine estate in the Bessarabian steppe near Odesa - indigenous grapes like Sukholymanskyi and Odesa Black, organic farming, and roughly 35,000 bottles a year from ten hectares.
Frumushika-Nova was established in 2006 by Oleksandr Palariev on ancestral land in the Bessarabian steppe, near Zmiivka village in the Odesa region, roughly fifty kilometres from the Moldovan border. His son Volodymyr Palariev is now the winemaker and CEO. The winery is part of a broader cultural project - a "Bessarabian village" tourism and ethnography centre that celebrates the multicultural heritage of the region (Ukrainian, Moldovan, Bulgarian, Gagauz, German, Jewish).
Around ten hectares, farmed organically. The grape portfolio mixes international varieties (Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon, Muscat Ottonel) with Ukrainian and local ones that give the estate its identity: Sukholymanskyi Bilyi (a focus variety for the whites), Odesa Black (Odeskyi Chornyi - Ukraine's flagship red), and Citron Magarach. Production is around thirty-five thousand bottles a year.
Natural, unfiltered winemaking. No preservatives in the natural wine line. The wines sit outside the dominant Ukrainian model of industrial-scale or sweet production, and the estate was early among Ukrainian producers working in a low-intervention register.
The winery operates at small scale on the Bessarabian steppe and combines wine with the surrounding ethnographic centre.

Blanc de Noirs Cabernet Sauvignon

Blanc de Noirs Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon Limited

Chardonnay Brut Traditional Method

Chardonnay Limited

Chardonnay Traditional Method Brut Nature 48 months

Citronniy Magaracha Brut Traditional Method

Citronniy Magaracha Rose Brut Traditional Method

Not Filtered Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé

Pinot Noir Rosé Brut Traditional Method

Pinot Noir Traditional Method Brut Nature 48 months

Riesling Limited

Suholimanske

Suholimanske Brut Traditional Method