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ALEKSANDAR KIMOV KIMOV WINERY Story by Jasmina Siderovski “I knew that the competition in this business is huge, but I believe that if you really love something the results will be visible.”
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inemaking has been around for thousands of years. Wine production is a natural process that requires Mother Nature to provide everything that is needed to make wine; it is up to humans to embellish, improve, or obliterate what nature has provided, to which anyone with extensive wine tasting experience can attest. Premium wines are much more labourintensive and take longer to produce– from hand-picking grapes in vineyards planted on the hillsides, to ageing them for several years in real oak barrels. High-end red wines have a higher level of tannins 30 | eYs Magazine, Winter 2021
which help them develop a more complex character while in a bottle.
wines is also another matter; both require additional human intervention to succeed.
There are five basic stages or steps to making wine: harvesting, crushing and pressing, fermentation, clarification, and then aging and bottling. One can find endless deviations and variations along the way. It is the variants and little deviations at any point in the process that make life interesting. They also make each wine unique and contribute to the greatness or ignominy of any wine. The steps for making white wine and red wine are the same, with one exception. The making of rosé wines and fortified or sparkling
Aleksandar Kimov is the owner and founder of Kimov Winery. A Macedonian owned and operated family business with a clear vision and committed to producing World-Class Estate wines from Macedonia’s finest - Tikves Wine Region. Kimov Winery produces premium quality white wines. The love for the winery business started when Kimov was a young child. His father, the owner of the winery, and he spent time and resources to learn everything they could about the business. Kimov says. “I had a solid background,
