Yerevan Brandy Company

The Yerevan Brandy Company (Armenian Երեւանի կոնյակի գործարան Jerevani konjaki gortsaran; Russian Ереванский коньячный завод Jerevanskij kon'jačnyj zavod ) is a brandy factory, founded in 1877 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Since 1998 it belongs to the group Pernod Ricard. The main product is the Ararat brandy. 85 % of exports go to the Russian market.

History

The history of the factory began in 1877, when the merchant Nerses Tairjanz in Yerevan founded a wine and liquor factory. Tairjanz it sold in 1899 for 50,000 rubles to the family NL Shustov & sons of the same Russian merchant dynasty. During the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, it won the Grand Prix of brandy after a blind tasting and the right to call themselves ' cognac ', not just ' Brandy '. Shortly after the founding of the Armenian SSR, the operation was nationalized in 1920 ( nationalized ). 1948 Brandy division was spun off as " Yerevan Cognac Factory" and moved into its own in 1953, representative building.

The products of this factory were unofficially known as the " Armenian cognac " because the term Cognac was referring to the Soviet Union on wine fires that did not come from the same region of France. The criterion was the production technology. Internationally, the Armenian cognac is also known as Armenian brandy. However, the products of the Yerevan Brandy Company was not an imitation of the French original. In addition to the varieties available in wholesale, there are also some which were stored 25, 30, 40 and 70 years. You achieve prices of many thousands or even tens of thousands of euros per bottle.

After the independence of Armenia in 1991 the factory was removed from the monopoly for high-quality brandies. In 1998 the company was privatized as a closed joint stock company and sold for 30 million U.S. dollars to the French company Pernod Ricard. The company has since been marketed in the West as Yerevan Brandy Company, delivering directly to 25 countries.