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Vinhol Oksamytne Winery

A family estate from Ukraine’s Danube Bessarabia, Vinhol Oksamytne makes Villa Tinta wines from Sukholimansky and Odesa Black, alongside Tintarella sparkling wines.

The producer

Founded in 1998, Vinhol Oksamytne is a family estate in Oksamitnoe village, Bolgrad district, whose Villa Tinta brand links its wines to Lake Yalpug and Danube Bessarabia. Ukrainian grapes shape the offer: Sukholimansky is made as a dry white, while Odesa Black appears as a dry Premium 2022 and in a VIP 2019 version matured for six months in French oak.

Tintarella covers the sparkling side of the range. Italian crushers, French Vaslin Bucher pneumatic presses and a certified laboratory form the documented cellar set-up. The two named Odesa Black wines offer a useful comparison: Premium Odesa Black 2022 is fermented dry, while the VIP Collection adds French-oak ageing, bringing oak into the red’s aromatic frame, body and finish.

Known for

Dry Sukholimansky and Odesa Black wines, including a French-oak-aged VIP Odesa Black, alongside Tintarella sparkling wines.

Notable facts

The story

The Yalpug name, 2018

In 2018, Vinhol Oksamytne joined other Yalpug Valley winemakers in creating one of Ukraine’s first PDO Yalpug geographical indications. The estate was founded in 1998 in Oksamitnoe village, Bolgrad district, and its Villa Tinta wines are associated with Lake Yalpug and Danube Bessarabia. The project brought the Yalpug name into a formal geographical indication shared by local producers. At Vinhol Oksamytne, the setting appears beside named grapes and bottles: dry Sukholimanskiy, dry Premium Odesa Black, the French-oak-aged VIP Odesa Black, and Tintarella sparkling wines.

The Yalpug name, 2018

In 2018, Vinhol Oksamytne joined other Yalpug Valley winemakers in creating one of Ukraine’s first PDO Yalpug geographical indications. The estate was founded in 1998 in Oksamitnoe village, Bolgrad district, and its Villa Tinta wines are associated with Lake Yalpug and Danube Bessarabia. The project brought the Yalpug name into a formal geographical indication shared by local producers. At Vinhol Oksamytne, the setting appears beside named grapes and bottles: dry Sukholimanskiy, dry Premium Odesa Black, the French-oak-aged VIP Odesa Black, and Tintarella sparkling wines.

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Vinhol Oksamytne Winery

At A Glance

Vinhol Oksamytne Winery is a family estate founded in 1998 in Oksamitnoe village, Bolgrad district, in Ukraine’s Odesa region. Its Villa Tinta brand links dry wines from the Ukrainian grapes Odesa Black and Sukholimansky with sparkling Tintarella wines, while Lake Yalpug and Danube Bessarabia supply the geographical frame on the label and in the glass.

The Producer

Villa Tinta is the public-facing wine brand of Vinhol Oksamytne, a family estate working in Odesa. The defining choice is to put local grapes beside a range of still, sparkling and oak-aged wines: Sukholimansky becomes a dry white, Odesa Black appears in both a dry Premium bottling and a French-oak-aged VIP wine, and Tintarella carries the sparkling side of the cellar.

Place

The winery stands in Oksamitnoe village in Bolgrad district and associates its wines with Lake Yalpug in Danube Bessarabia. That association matters most as a way of locating the bottles: this is Lake Yalpug country rather than a generic Ukrainian label, and the estate uses it alongside grapes such as Odesa Black and Sukholimansky that make the range feel rooted in its own corner of Odesa.

Soil And Site

Lake Yalpug is the supported site reference for Vinhol Oksamytne’s wines. The estate presents its terroir through that lake and Danube Bessarabia, so the useful site connection is geographical rather than geological: the place names establish where Villa Tinta’s local-grape wines belong, without claiming unverified soil types, slopes or vineyard measurements.

Story

Founded as a family estate in 1998, Vinhol Oksamytne has built its range around several ways of handling its regional material. Sukholimansky is made as a dry white; Odesa Black is made dry in Premium form and then taken in a different direction in the VIP Collection with six months in French oak. The result is not one fixed style but a useful contrast between dry fruit-led winemaking, sparkling wines and a red shaped by élevage.

Vineyards And Cellar

The vineyard side is visible in the grapes the estate grows, particularly Ukrainian Sukholimansky and Odesa Black. In the cellar, Italian crushers and French Vaslin Bucher pneumatic presses handle the fruit, while a certified laboratory sits within the production set-up. Those are practical tools rather than decorative details: crushing and pressing are the first stages that determine the juice moving toward a dry white, a dry red or the base material for sparkling wine.

The named wines show two clear cellar decisions. Sukholimanskiy 2022 is fermented to dryness from Sukholimanskiy Bilyy must, while Premium Odesa Black 2022 is fermented to dryness from Odesa Black must. VIP Odesa Black 2019 then spends six months in French oak, adding an oak-aged path to the same producer’s red-wine offer and separating its texture and aromatic frame from the more immediate Premium bottling.

Wines

The range has three useful lanes. Tintarella covers sparkling wines, bringing mousse and freshness into the portfolio. Sukholimanskiy 2022 is the dry white lane: a wine made from Sukholimanskiy Bilyy must, where dryness places acidity, fruit and texture ahead of sweetness. Odesa Black supplies the red-wine lane, beginning with the dry Premium Odesa Black 2022.

The VIP Collection Odesa Black 2019 is the range’s more cellar-shaped red. Its six months in French oak make oak part of the wine’s structure, alongside the grape’s fruit and tannin, whereas Premium Odesa Black is defined in the available material by fermentation to dryness. That division gives a practical choice: sparkling Tintarella for mousse, Sukholimanskiy for a dry white texture, Premium for dry Odesa Black, or VIP when oak is wanted in the red’s body and finish.

In The Glass

Start with the contrast in structure rather than trying to force one house style onto every bottle. Tintarella belongs to the sparkling side, where mousse is the key physical cue. Sukholimanskiy 2022 is dry, so its palate is framed by acidity and fruit rather than sugar. Premium Odesa Black 2022 is also fermented dry, placing the grape’s fruit, tannin and finish at the centre of the red-wine experience.

VIP Odesa Black 2019 changes that sequence through six months in French oak. Oak can bring a broader aromatic frame and more weight through the middle of the palate, while the red’s tannin keeps the finish structural. The informative comparison is therefore between dry Odesa Black with no documented oak step and dry Odesa Black given documented French-oak ageing—not between imagined tasting notes.

A Bottle To Understand It

Choose Premium Odesa Black 2022 first. It is a dry wine made from Odesa Black must, so it introduces one of the estate’s named regional grapes without the additional French-oak layer used for the VIP Collection. Its dry profile puts fruit, acidity, tannin and finish in the foreground; after that bottle, VIP Odesa Black offers a clear second step, with six months in French oak changing the red’s weight, aromatic shape and texture.

Anecdote

In 2018, Vinhol Oksamytne joined other Yalpug Valley winemakers in creating one of Ukraine’s first PDO Yalpug geographical indications. The company was already working from Oksamitnoe village in Bolgrad district, with Villa Tinta wines associated with Lake Yalpug and Danube Bessarabia. The work brought a group of local producers together around the Yalpug name, creating a formal geographical indication connected to the same valley that frames the winery’s wines. Odesa Black, Sukholimansky and the Villa Tinta range remained concrete bottle-level expressions of that setting.

Final Word

Vinhol Oksamytne is worth seeking out for a specific Ukrainian comparison: a dry Sukholimansky white, sparkling Tintarella, and two Odesa Black reds divided by French-oak ageing. Begin with Premium Odesa Black 2022, then use the VIP Collection to see what six months in oak adds to the grape’s body, tannin and finish.

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