BH youngest winemaker, Velimir Eres, has for a short time, in just four years, won nine medals at international fairs in Zagreb, Split, Mostar and Sarajevo. The cellar was made in 2008, and the idea was born only two years before that. The vineyard was planted in the 2006, and is located at the optimal position of Vilinka, the hill of Sretnice(Citluk) at the altitude of about 400 meters. The Vilinka cellar makes Žilavka, Blatina and Blatina Barrique. As to the amount, we focus on quality, and we plan to reach up to 30 000 liters capacity, which is the capacity of the cellar. Within the wine cellar, there is a wine tasting room with the capacity of 40 people.

The monks of the Tvrdoš Monastery opened a new chapter of the wine making story in monasteries ten years ago. They started working old Vranac vineyards covering 70 hectares of land and planted new 60 hectares of vineyards in Popovo polje. The monastery has two wine cellars. Vranac ages in hundred years old oak barrels in an old cellar from the XV century and only ten meters away, next to the bank of the river of Trebišnjica, a new cellar has been build and equipped with the modern technology. Cellars of the Tvrdoš Monastery apply traditions of monastery viticulture and Herzegovian climate, producing wines made of autochthonous and international varieties of grapes in the cellar from the XV century. Žilavka, vranac, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon and traditional monastery varieties are combined using ancient and modern technologies. Tvrdoš wines have been awarded silver medals for its quality.

The family cellar Sušac is situated in the Ljubuški Cerno. It’s surrounded by vineyards on the hilly plateau from which a beautiful view of Međugorje and a bigger part of Herzegovina is provided to the visitor. The serene position and specific soil guarantee an outstanding grapes quality. During the past years, the Sušac family has been investing a lot of effort in enlivening the authentic Herzegovina ambience. By tasting the wines of this cellar, you will feel the harmony of man, sun, grapevine, and stone.

Karst, stone, sun, olive, and grapevine have been creating for ages a unity that defies time, testimony of which can be found on the tombstones (stečći) drawings in Radimlja near Stolac (15th century) decorated with grapes images.

From its foundation in 1948 to the present, wines from this winery have obtained highest grades and complimentary acknowledgements. They have won prestigious awards in Paris, Zagreb, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Split, Mostar, etc. In the recently held international evaluation of wines in Split, where over 220 white wines were presented, Žilavka – Stolac cellars won a gold diploma, thus proving the great potential of the Žilavka variety as a variety for high quality and best world wines.

The winery Stolac cellars belongs to the family and disposes of its own plantations on a 130 hectares area. Every year 15 hectares of autochthonous varieties Žilavka and Blatina are planted, and the production is done according to the newest European standards and technologies. The gold – greenish colour of Žilavka is a blend of amber and diamonds, it’s the liquid gold of the soil, it speaks clear, without afterthought or hidden intention.

He is the oldest producer of wine and brandy in Herzegovina. Among the first, in 1982, he builds a modern cellar and registers himself as producer of wine and brandy. Currently, he owns 2 hectares of his own, and a modern vineyards plantation.
Several years ago he was among the first in Herzegovina to plant a vineyard with Cabernet sauvignon and Chardonnay varieties, the most famous world varieties out of which he gains wines of great quality.
Besides his own plantations, Stojić buys off Žilavka and Blatina from the best vineyards of his neighbours. The cellar is modern and air-conditioned. It is equipped with the latest machines for grapes elaboration, inox tanks and vats for fermentation, wooden barrels and small barrique barrels. Each of the vessels have cooling and heating systems.
The production of white wines is done exclusively in inox vessels, while the red wines are fermented, aged, and kept in wooden and barrique barrels.

One of the pioneers in winemaking in Herzegovina with bottled wine production for over 30 years, presently, bottling the well-known Žilavka and Blatina from this region, because it is a family tradition of grapes and wine production out of these famous varieties. It is done with love and pleasure. The production is strictly ecological, that is why it is appreciated and requested from all over Europe.