📍 Uzhhorod
The area around Uzhhorod with small family wineries.
Uzhhorod is named as one of four planned Zakarpattia sub-appellations, and it is listed as a main base for wine tourism in Transcarpathia.
The soils of the Carpathian foothills here are volcanic, clay and loam. The Leanka company, founded in 1946, keeps its cellars in tuff at Serednie, in Uzhhorod district.
How it connects to Wine
📍 Uzhhorod ← grows in ← 🍇 Welschriesling → kind of → 🍇 Grape varieties → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 📍 Zakarpattia
- Grapes
- 🍇 Welschriesling, 🍇 Traminer
Frequently asked questions
Why does Uzhhorod matter for wine tourism?
It is listed as a main base for wine tourism in Transcarpathia.
Where are Leanka's cellars?
In tuff at Serednie, Uzhhorod district.
When was Leanka founded?
In 1946.
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.
Similar
📍 Mukachevo · 📍 Serednie · 📍 Berehove · 📍 Vynohradiv (Chorna Hora) · 📍 Slavonia and Croatian Danube · 📍 Zakarpattia
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
- Wines of the Silver Land