📍 Serednie
A village with old cellars where wines are aged.
Serednie is a village in Uzhhorod district, Transcarpathia, and the Leanka company's cellars here are said to date to 1557. They stretch about 4.5 km, carved into volcanic tuff, and the tuff keeps them at around 12 °C.
The Leanka agro-industrial company, founded in 1946, runs the cellars. Its local Leanka grape is named for the Hungarian word for 'girl'.
How it connects to Wine
📍 Serednie ← grows in ← 🍇 Welschriesling → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 📍 Zakarpattia
- Grapes
- 🍇 Welschriesling, 🍇 Traminer, 🍇 Furmint
Frequently asked questions
How long are the Leanka cellars?
About 4.5 km, carved into volcanic tuff.
What temperature do they keep?
Around 12 °C.
What does 'Leanka' mean?
The Hungarian word for 'girl'.
What to read next
- 🍇 Welschriesling — A white wine grape of Central Europe, unrelated to true Riesling.
- 🍇 Traminer — An ancient white variety, listed in VIVC as Savagnin blanc; Gewürztraminer is its aromatic pink-berried form.
- 🍇 Furmint — A white grape from Hungary, the main variety of Tokaj alongside Hárslevelű: 4,000 ha, 5.9 % of the country's vineyards (2015); called Šipon in Slovenia.
Similar
📍 Uzhhorod · 📍 Mukachevo · 📍 Berehove · 📍 Vynohradiv (Chorna Hora) · 📍 Zakarpattia · 📍 Tokaj (Slovakia)
Sources
- Mind.ua: GI «Закарпаття / Закарпатське вино» registered
- Держпродспоживслужба: Закон «Про виноград, вино та продукти виноградарства» (2026)
- OIV country statistics
- Wine Tourism - Transcarpathia
- Odessa Journal - Wineries of Transcarpathia