Winery for sale in Monferrato area

ITALY – PIEMONT – MONFERRATO (ASTI Area) A wine business with well established brands marketed in Italy and abroad. The wine business consists of the following assets: - 7 hectares (approximately 17.3 acres) of DOCG vineyards planted between 1997 and 2013 and fully productive; - a building of aboutb1000 sq meters housing the winery, an office, a tasting room, a laboratory; - a 400 m² building for land machinery and warehouse; - winery equipment including: - a grape cleaning and pressing line with elevator; - stainless steel and fiberglass vats, barriques, casks pumps and pipes and tubes; - a 2500 bottles per hour bottling line; - agricultural machinery including a vineyard tractor, a large wheel tractor, a caterpillar track vineyard tractor, complete equipment for mechanical vineyard management - a 20 kW photovoltaic installation, PRODUCTS AND MARKETS The business´s product line includes the most important Piemontese wines: quality red wines (Barolo and Barbaresco), traditional Piemontese red wines (Barbera, Nebbiolo, Grignolino and Ruché), white (Gavi) and sparkling wines (Moscato and Spumante Metodo Classico). The business sells about 75.000 bottles per year while having a considerably higher production capacity. The wine which is sold is either produced on-site from the farm`s own grapes and from grapes contracted from other farms or by other co-operating wineries in case of wines with a particular production process or required to be produced in particular locations due to denomination rules. 24% of sales go to the Italian market, 76% to foreign markets. THE BUSINESS´S DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS - High quality products based on best production practices and the capacity to select suitable suppliers; - excellent product ratings by national and international wine reviewers; - an extensive and pervasive sales organization; - well established partnerships with chosen raw material and final product suppliers; - contiguous vineyards with excellent exposure close to business headquarters; - panoramic location of headquarters; - possibility to increase vineyard acreage; - possibility to increase winery´s output; - ample space for new construction.