Frumushika-Nova

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.