Gergana, Dora and Antoaneta – Introduction of three ladies from the ambitious team at Vinprom Yambol

Let me introduce you three sunny ladies that are an inseparable part of the Vinprom Yambol Team. Their dedication and love for the profession are an example of how a person can achieve the ideal balance between the Personal and the Professional. For as Confucius said: "Find a job you love and you will never have to work." The material is published on the pages of the "Bacchus" magazine:

"Crazy luck!" Gergana Krikorian exclaimed, "I never imagined!" She is the director of production in Vinprom Yambol, where for a few weeks now is in exploitation an exceptional technologist’s acquisition - a winery for microvinification. But the exclamation has nothing to do with it. It refers to an event in her personal history. When studying winemaking at the end of the 1990s, she did not even dare to think that she will ever find work in her field of study. So the spot that opens in the laboratory of one of the wineries after her graduation continues to seem like an almost improbable chance. With such a horizon a decade ago, now she realizes how much beyond it she got - with a leading position in one of the largest and busiest cellars in Bulgaria, and from this year - with all the perfect components a wine technologist can ever dream about in their profession anywhere in the world. The planted five to seven years ago Vinprom Yambol vineyards are entering their best phase, with extremely diverse varietal structure, and at one end of the asphalt playground rises the newly open cellar for processing of small volumes of wine. With the Vinprom Yambol policy to maintain a large variety of brands and classes of wine technologists are now some sort of a virtuoso artists in front of a widely blank canvas, and behind their back – a wall of paints and brushes. Just like Dexter finally in his laboratory.

Gergana Krikoryan is not the only leading technologist at the wine cellar, whose horizon was expanded in such an incredible way. Dora Koleva, Head of production, and Antoineta Mihova, Head of the winery are in a similar position. They graduated Plovdiv University of Food Technologies at about the same time, and like the rest of their generation didn’t have much hope for a professional development. "As a student I had a great desire to work in my field of study, but I did not expect it," says Antoinette. A little later she walks along the yard of the winery, stops in front of the recently arrived from the vineyard crates, and triumphantly wields a flawless cluster, taken out of them.

The Vinprom Yambol vineyards were planted with the idea of ​​the production of high-end wines, so Gergana, Antoaneta and Dora have been engaged in the project for several years now. Now, with the first harvest, which is being vinified in small volumes, they are before a new step in their careers - a time when their numerous tastings of Bulgarian and foreign wines, the comparison of crops, the monitoring of the trends of the global market, the laboratory tests, the work on the vineyards - all of their efforts will be utilized in wine aerobatic. And, probably, will lead to a new type of popularity on the Bulgarian market and new medals at international fairs.