Discover Global South Brands Ready to Scale

Lhamour

Twelve days after opening, thieves stole everything. Khulan caught the thief at the airport herself, survived three floods, built Mongolia's natural beauty export leader

Ulaanbaatar 🇲🇳

Perfect Diary

P&G insider who used multinational playbook against them. First Chinese beauty IPO. $4B valuation. Category-creating digital strategy.

Guangzhou

SoleRebels

$6,000 on grandmother's land. 100,000 jobs created. Ethiopia's first global fashion brand. Artisan production as competitive moat.

Addis Ababa

SUGAR Cosmetics

Rejected ₹1 crore after two failures. Third startup reached $500M. Solved what L'Oréal overlooked: makeup for India's diverse skin tones.

Mumbai 🇮🇳

Walk of Shame

Fashion editor turned founder. Dinner party joke became Galeries Lafayette success. Authentic Russian storytelling that sanctions couldn't silence.

Moscow

Abrau-Durso

In 1870, Tsar Alexander II issued an imperial decree creating what would become Russia's answer to Champagne.

Novorossiysk 🇷🇺

Derbent Cognac Factory

₽2.7B spirits producer specializing in cognac and brandy, with minor wine production for local Dagestan markets.

Derbent 🇷🇺

Fanagoria Estate Winery

Russia's largest winery by vineyard area doesn't just grow grapes—it operates a Beijing flagship store, ships 800,000 bottles annually to China, and produces wines scoring 80-97 Robert Parker points from its own cooperage's Old Russian Oak barrels.

Sennoy 🇷🇺

Lefkadia Valley

How does a Russian winery crack the world's Top 30?

Moldavanskoe 🇷🇺

Novyi Svet

Prince Lev Golitsyn didn't just introduce méthode champenoise to Russia—he chose Novyi Svet in 1878 to prove Crimean terroir could rival Champagne.

Sudak 🇷🇺

Château André

28 French research trips over 6 years, Austrian consultant, authentic Provence château, daughter managing father's succession.

Khutor Shkolny 🇷🇺

Uzunov

Four generations: Soviet workers → Fanagoria Chief Winemaker (35 years) → Russia's first family farm license → both sons involved.

Posyolok Sennoy 🇷🇺

Elbuzd

A tax office worker with no business experience financed Russia's first three-level gravitational winery through bank loans at 24% interest.

Azovsky District 🇷🇺

Galitskiy & Galitskiy

After building Russia's largest retail chain, Forbes billionaire Sergey Galitskiy turned to wine as his legacy project.

Gostalgaevskaya

Usadba Mezyb

The Russian Orthodox Church spent eight years preparing to enter premium wine production, then launched with a winemaker who became Russia's 'Winemaker of the Year' 2024.

Between Divnomorskoye and Djankhot, Mezyb River

Inkerman

Fifty-five thousand square meters of cathedral-like chambers carved into Inkerman Mountain, where ancient stone quarries became Soviet sparkling wine cellars.

Sevastopol 🇷🇺

Kuban-Vino

Château Tamagne doesn't sound like a Soviet-era winery brand—and that's the point.

Temryuk 🇷🇺

Massandra

Prince Lev Golitsyn—the nobleman who introduced méthode champenoise to Russia—founded Massandra in 1894 to serve the tsars.

Yalta 🇷🇺

Millstream

Founded in 1936 during Stalin's industrialization drive, Millstream survived what most Soviet-era projects couldn't: Nazi occupation of Crimea, Soviet recapture devastation, and decades of infrastructure chaos.

Sevastopol 🇷🇺

Myskhako

Founded in 1869 by Fyodor Geyduk—one year before Tsar Alexander II decreed Abrau-Durso's creation—Myskhako stands as Russia's third-oldest winery.

Novorossiysk 🇷🇺

Tsimlyansk Wines

Red sparkling wine sounds like a marketing gimmick—unless you're in the Don Valley, where Cossacks have made it from Tsimlyansky Cherny grapes since the 18th century.

Tsimlyansk 🇷🇺

Vedernikov Winery

A single bottle sold for 750,000 rubles at auction—a record for Russian wine.

Konstantinovsk 🇷🇺

Zolotaya Balka

Balaklava harbor witnessed the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854.

Sevastopol 🇷🇺

Antonenko Family Winery

Family hobby-to-business transition with two Anapa tasting rooms and full family operational involvement.

Anapa 🇷🇺

AYA Organic Vineyards

Russia's first mandatory organic certification (2024), 'Wine Roads of Russia' winner—exceptional quality on disputed Crimean territory.

Rodnoye 🇷🇺

Château Sort

Lefkadia alumnus pioneering 1m x 1.5m ultra-dense planting and monosortovye (single varietal) wines in premium restaurants.

Krasnodar 🇷🇺

Dva Romana

Two friends named Roman (lawyer + engineer) running a 5,000-bottle nano-winery with entirely manual production.

Krasnodar 🇷🇺

Isa Musaev Winery

'Best sommelier/winemaker of Dagestan' making 5 ultra-premium wines integrated with Caspian wine tourism.

Dagestan 🇷🇺

Krinitsa

French enologist (now Russian citizen) + young Russian winemaker = Double Gold Terravino 2024 winner with gravity-flow facility.

Krasnodar Krai 🇷🇺

Levokumskoye

237-year-old Stavropol flagship (1788) undergoing complete 2022 reconstruction and 700ha→1,200ha expansion.

Stavropol Krai 🇷🇺

Marko

Grandfather's 20-year passion project: Stavropol's sixth farm winery with ungrafted Krasnostop vines, named for grandson Mark.

Stavropol Krai 🇷🇺

Shumrinka

Decanter World Wine Awards winner combining Serbian Probus grapes, drone monitoring, and traditional handwork at scale.

Krasnodar 🇷🇺

Skalisty Bereg

ArchDaily Building of the Year 2021 finalist: Architectural landmark gravity-flow winery with 2022 debut vintage.

Krasnodar 🇷🇺

Usadba Sarkel

Reviving 1,400-year-old Khazar winemaking site and Pushkin-era 'Kazachka' sparkling tradition with Forbes Top 100 recognition.

Tsimlyansk 🇷🇺

Villa Zvezda

The winemaker incubator: Co-founders later launched Usadba Sarkel (Forbes Top 100) and Vinabani (30+ autochthon varieties).

Konstantinovsk 🇷🇺

Vinabani

Four generations preserving 30+ nearly extinct Don autochthon grape varieties that survived Soviet anti-alcohol campaigns.

Malaya Martynovka 🇷🇺

Yaila

Russia's first still wine from Pinot Meunier. First orange wines from Kokur. First bourbon barrel aging.

Sevastopol (winery), Gurzuf terroirs (vineyards) 🇷🇺

Château Le Grand Vostock

When French winemaker Frank Duseigneur arrived in Krasnodar in 2003, Russia's wine industry was still stuck in Soviet bulk production.

Sadovy 🇷🇺

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