Wine Culture Centre SHABO
Brand Land, Ukraine, 38500 m2, 2009


SHABO WINE CULTURE CENTRE – 80km from Odessa, Ukraine - the attractive place for everybody interested in wine and wine-making. The Shabo vineyards are situated on the so-called „wine latitude“ – where the great wine-making regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy are located.

The proposition "wine is not alcohol, wine is culture" means that wine is more than a drink. It is the aim of the centre to explore this additional quality of wine. Wine is a product of culture and drinking it is a form of culture appreciation. Wine and art complement each other, which is why the Schabo Wine Culture Centre offers an encounter not only with wine but also with art.

You can see, feel, taste, experience, save in your memory and take with you special memories of wine and wine-culture.

Fountain of Dionysus, in memory of Swiss, Louis Vincent Tardent, 1787 – 1836, the founder and first mayor of Shabo.
You can touch the miracle of wine-making inside the Dionysus fountain – the symbol of SHABO.
(Sculpture Hugo Schaer, Music Arakel Semenov)

The passion of Andalusia waits for you in the 200-year-old sherry cellar.

In the Shabo Cinema you can see and hear the fascinating story of Shabo settlement from the Swiss wine-maker Louis Tardent, who is the founder and first mayor of Shabo. (filmOdessa)

Dare to visit the unusual museum labyrinth and dive in the world of ancient legends about wine.
Shabo’s heritage is derived from numerous cultures. Greeks, Skythians, Sarmatians, Romans, Genoese and Turks left their imprints on this land. And finally Swiss wine-makers founded Shabo and started the production of wine less than two centuries ago.

Like Alexander Pushkin and King of Romania visit the unique King’s Cellar, built two centuries ago by Swiss colonists.

Witness professional wine-making, which combines tradition and innovation.

In the underground crystal hall taste Shabo wines, created with love in a unique terroir between sea and river estuary. Enjoy the noble Shabo brandy and Shabo Champagne made by the classic method of bottle-fermentation.