Wine Tasting

The pleasure of travel through wine

Our travel advisor certify from “WSET Awards London” in 2004, will introduce you to the best Albanian wines.

There is no doubt that Albania has been a winemaking country since ancient times, known for its vineyards spread on its gentle hills. A blessed country, Albania is home to excellent and unique Mediterranean wines, with an ampelographic heritage telling the oenological history . Clashes between gladiators, generals, armies, wars coming one after the other, all have been accompanied by the best of the companions — the wine — amidst the hotbeds of power. Wine production is both an art and a science, a mixture of individual creativity with innovative technology. Thanks to its geographical position, number of sunny days, fertile soil and indigenous varieties, Albania offers a high quality of wine production, making it a competitive industry in the region and beyond. This has come as a result of building vineyards capacity and processing capacities of the wineries.

The main varieties of Albanian autochthonous grapes for red wine are Shesh i Zi, Kallmet, Vlosh, Serina, Debinë e Zezë, while among the white wines it is worth mentioning Shesh i Bardhe, Debinë e Bardhë, Pula, Therepelë etc., appreciated for their fruity and floral aroma. Kallmet, named after the sweet grape variety, is used to produce both red and white wine, and has also won numerous awards world wide, including Kallmet‘s 30-year-old wine.