SUVLA WINES / ESTATES
Our WINERY
Our WINERY
Suvla Winery started production in 2009 with the redesign and transformation of an old textile factory in Çanakkale/Eceabat. It operates as a contemporary winery, a traditional stone mill oil mill and a natural products processing center, producing in a 5,200 m2 closed area within a 10-acre land.
“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.”
The transformation of grapes into wine… Experience and balance in the production of good wine
The approach focused on quality in the vineyards, which plays the biggest role in the success of a winery, is meticulously maintained in production, in the ideal of producing the best possible wine, to the extent that terroir and technology allow.
The winery, which has the necessary infrastructure to produce chateau-quality wine, has been established using state-of-the-art winemaking equipment and solutions from consultants from Turkey and around the world. The infrastructure created includes cold storage facilities that allow grapes to be stabilized, grape processing with a gravity system, reception system, presses and pumps. Temperature-controlled steel fermentation and storage tanks were designed and specially manufactured by experts. Special oak barrels for aging were placed in a special cellar with a temperature and humidity balance, and a bottling system was established. The winery infrastructure has been increased to a capacity of 5 million bottles since 2018.
As of 2021, the most striking innovation in the winery, apart from a certain capacity increase, can be called the investment made entirely in ‘renewable solar energy’. The information provided by the founder Selim Zafer Ellialtı regarding the completion of the project is as follows: “We are experiencing the excitement and pride of being able to realize the dream we established as a team in the focus of changing climate conditions and global warming. In our world where our natural resources are rapidly depleting due to the increasing production and consumption frenzy and it is becoming difficult to compensate for the depleted resources, we have signed a ‘Renewable Energy’ project that we are proud of in the field of ‘Environmental Sustainability’. We started to get all the energy of our winery – production complex from the sun. We leaned our back on the sun. In our project, approximately 1100 DC 450 Wp solar panels were used on our usable roof area of approximately 3000 m2. Our total maximum power was AC 378 kW. We will meet approximately 71% of our total electrical energy consumption from solar panels. We will be able to sell back to the state the excess of our instant need during daily production. In this way, we saved 2174 trees annually and reduced 333,490 tons of carbon emissions (Carbon “We will prevent emissions.”
Another important environmentally friendly investment of the winery is the renewed wastewater management depending on the increased capacity. The wastewater formed after processing is purified by preserving its various chemical, physical, bacteriological and ecological properties and removing the polluting elements of the water, thus making it harmless to nature and the environment. The purification process is carried out by chemical, physical or biological means with the purification plant with a capacity of 100 tons/day, which includes all the processes. The processes include a preliminary sedimentation pool, chemical and biological purification units, aeration pool, final sedimentation pool, sludge dewatering (filter press) units. As a result of the purification, the wastewater is brought to a state that is suitable for the parameters of the receiving environment to which it is discharged and does not change its physical, chemical, bacteriological and ecological properties.
In addition to many criteria that have a great impact on the result in winemaking, the quality of the grapes and the fact that the processed grapes are harvested from a single vineyard are the priority in the ranking for the Suvla winemaking team. The winemaking team and enologists take the utmost care of the vineyards throughout the year and follow the grape development. Suvla also carries out grape processing and winemaking agreements specific to its vineyards with efforts to support all winegrowers in the region.
The Suvla winemaking team, under the consultancy of French oenologists, processed slightly over 3,500 tons of grapes in 2023 based on different production techniques and varieties. The white, rosé and red wines they prepare are offered to wine lovers under the special labels of Behramlı, Bigalı, Kocadere and Kumkale, as well as Kilitbahir, Kabatepe, Suvla, Kirte, Sur, Sır, Suvla Reserve, Suvla Grand Reserve, Natural Sparkling, Late Harvest Natural Dessert Wine series. In 2022, Suvla oenologists brought to the shelves the Beaujolais- Fresh Wine “Suvla Gamay- Carbonic Maceration”, which is made from Gamay grapes with a very thin skin and low tannin content and is produced in the third week of every November in the world. The team achieved another first by introducing the Petilliant Naturel natural semi-sparkling wine Suvla Pet-Nat Kınalı Yapıncak, which is very popular and in demand all over the world, to wine lovers.
