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Feravino: Ivan Maričić new CEO

The Slavonian company Osilovac, which operates the well-known winery Feravino, has a new Management Board since April. Ivan Maričić has been appointed as the new CEO, and Luka Vrga, the sales and marketing director of Feravino, has been appointed as a member of the Management Board for winemaking and viticulture.

With these personnel changes, the company aims to strengthen its role in the global market in the activities it engages in, which include crop production, livestock farming, viticulture, dairy cow breeding, and beef cattle fattening, as well as further strengthening the Feravino wine brand, they emphasize in Osilovac.

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Feravino continuously invests in technology, and in 2018, it entered with a completely new primary processing.

– Two reception bins and new, state-of-the-art presses – one pneumatic and two vacuum – represent the most modern technology at a global level and are a very important prerequisite for the production of premium white wines. They are equipped with a cooling system and valves, and carbonic maceration can be performed in them, said Luka Vrga, the new member of the Management Board of Osilovac.

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The winery from Feričanci has expanded its capacities with five new vinifiers for the production of red and maceration of white grapes with a capacity of one hundred and twenty hectoliters, as well as eighteen new stainless steel tanks of ten thousand liters each. Each is independent and has its own control cabinet, and the management system is fully automated. There is also a new isobaric filter for cross-flow filtration, which is performed in an inert gas atmosphere.

In the tourist season with new sparkling wines

There are plans for the construction of a new air-conditioned warehouse in the production area, and this spring, new bottling lines for still and sparkling wines have arrived at the winery.

– This is a modern facility with three autoclaves for the production of sparkling wine according to the Charmat or tank method. This is a new method in our cellar as we have previously produced sparkling wines using the classic method of fermentation in the bottle, emphasizes Vrga. Thus, Feravino will enter the new tourist season with two new sparkling wines, one of which, Grasecco, recently had a successful pre-premiere in Dubrovnik.

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Wine tourism in Feričanci

Building on the Feravino brand, the company Osilovac plans investments in the tourist offer of Feričanci, in accommodation capacities and gastronomic offerings, thus making investments that align excellently with the basic guidelines of the tourism development strategy of the Osijek-Baranja County. Osilovac is the most significant economic entity in the Feričanci area and as such should be one of the leaders in improving the quality of life of the local community, emphasized Luka Vrga.