Name of factory

Vindicum SRL

English name

Winery of Production and Commerce Vindecum Ltd (VINDICUM)

Address

59 Belinschi, str.
Chisinau city, Republic of Moldova, MD 2075
Tel. / fax: (+373 22) 50 71 62
e-mail: export-vindecum@mail.md

Vineyard

Straseni district, 5 Chisinaului str. , Republic of Moldova

 

Administration andemployees

Mr. Valeriu Minciuc, Director
Mrs. Stela Drucioc, Manager on Export  
5 persons administration staff, 20 qualified specialist on wine production, 49 full-time and 200 part-time employees    

Date of foundation

1963 date of foundation of the state winery as part of Agro-industrial Association of Straseni town.
Main activity focused on wine and raw material export to the former soviet republics.
1989 date of winery privatization and reorganization into Join-Stock Company Straseni S.A. The main activity focused on wine production and bottling.
1996 date of winery reorganization and foundation of VINDICUM.
Main activity focused on wine production and export.

Company documents and certification

VINDICUM  disposes the following documents:

  • Certificates of creation;
  • License for wine production;
  • Phitosanitary license;
  • Certificate of accreditation of the wine winery laboratory (certificate of quality control);
  • Others.

Main activity

At the beginning winery was established as a part of Agro-Industrial Association of Straseni town for export of wine and raw material from the central zone of Moldova to the former soviet republics.

At the moment main activity of VINDICUM is focused on wine production and commercialisation. The winery disposes of one Italian bottling line with capacity of 3.500 bottles /hour, as well as two French bag-in-box lines with a capacity of 800 box/hour.

Its own railway track, deposits with total areas of 2000m2, modern equipment for wine cold treatment, membrane filtration, skilled specialists and winemakers provide wine bolting of height quality.  

Other activities developed are following:

  1. VINDICUM has licences for international transport of products and develops this sphere of activity in Europe.

  2. VINDICUM has licences for imports of fertiliser, its marketing in Moldova and re-export.

  3. VINDICUM develops the activity of apple production and export to the former soviet republics.

Annual volumes of production

The annual production of the wine constitutes 1 -3 millions of wine bottles per year.

Export

At the moment VINDICUM has developed export in the following countries: Greece, Israel, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus. There are in process of initiation the wine export to China, Republic of South African, Kazakhstan and Vietnam.
New export to: Japan

VINDICUM is available to support the wine promotion to the Japanese market on following ways:

  • to provide informational leaflets about wine production;
  • to provide the movie about the process of wine production starting with grape growing to the wine bottling;
  • to send samples with wine production; 2 - 3% of wine to be free of charge at each exported container, in first trimester,  for promotion reasons (15000 - 17000 bottles in container).

The following wines are available for export:

  1. Pinot frank, red wine  (600 000* bottles per year )
  2. Cabernet - Sauvignons, red wine (1 200 000* bottles per year)
  3. Merlot, red wine (1 200 000* bottles per year)
  4. Chardonnay, white wine (1 250 000* bottles per year)
  5. Sauvignon, white wine (1 250 000* bottles per year)
  6.  Muscat, white wine  (500 000* bottles per year)

* the volumes of export can be changed according demand

In the future VINDICUM proposes to develop the elaboration of new kind of wines in common with Japanese partner.

Records

VINDICUM is awarded with golden, silver and bronze medals at international exhibitions of Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, (Russia) Sochi, Odessa (Ukraine).

Financial information

To be sent on demand