Old Bridge Winery
Old Bridge Winery
4.8
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Monday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Thursday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Sunday
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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We welcome wine lovers for authentic wine tasting experience, lunch/dinner. Funded back in 1998 Old Bridge was one of the first boutique wineries of Armenia. A small family winery producing premium quality wines which have won several golden and silver medals at well-known international wine contests. Please contact us beforehand for reservations.
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Gogius
St. Petersburg, Russia154 contributions
Oct 2024 • Couples
We wrote off in advance by e-mail, agreed everything. By the time we arrived, everything was ready. I recommend combining wine tasting with lunch (dinner). View of the vineyards. The wines are gorgeous, great cheeses and other snacks, the meat is perfectly prepared. Yes, wine is a bit expensive here, but the winery only makes 20,000 bottles a year, so it's a small premium for an exclusive product. Recommended.
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Written November 5, 2024
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Наталья Б
38 contributions
Aug 2023
I would like to leave a warm review about the Old Bridge winery. The reception was great. A table was already waiting for us with snacks grown and prepared in this region: fruits, cheeses, several types of olives, olive oil and delicious bread. The excursion began at the production facility, where the girl guide spoke about the technology of making wine. It is clear that she loves what she does and is proud of their wine. Then the tasting itself began, we tried 4 types of wine and grape vodka. I won’t bore you with details, but I will say that we were very pleased with both the reception and the quality of the wine. And the cost is 3,750 rubles for two - this is just a very modest price for such a tasting. For example, in Crimea we paid that much money for one person. So I definitely recommend it, especially since the trip to this region along the serpentine road itself is quite an adventure!
Written August 27, 2023
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Вера П
7 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
Winery and restaurant on the way to Tatev. We stopped here for lunch with our family. Well-groomed area with a beautiful view, the food is very tasty, a set lunch costs 10,000 drams, you can’t eat it alone 😁 They also conduct wine tastings
Written August 6, 2023
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Antoine S. T
29 contributions
Jun 2022
This newly opened restaurant is located next to the Old Bridge winery building and serves the wines produced in the Old Bridge Winery. They have a set menu (with some basic choices - i.e. red meat, fowl or fish). You start with appetizers and a special Old Bridge wine is served with this, at the right temperatures. The sommelier (son of the winery owner) describes the wine vintage you're about to experience. Then you get the main entrée (we actually shared and tried both the fresh fish and the beef) it was delicious and we again tried 2 different wines. Then we had the dessert (it was a freshly baked cake, because we were celebrating a birthday. The meringue on the cake was fresh and moist, we had brought our own Champagne (which was happily tolerated.
The new building for this restaurant is beautifully set with panoramic windows. We sat outside on the terrace. The toilets were the best I have seen in Armenia.
A very enjoyable experience, with excellent service for 10,000 AMD per person.
They accept all credit cards and have free wifi.
The restaurant also offer special wine-tasting of their vintages paired with corresponding foods.
The new building for this restaurant is beautifully set with panoramic windows. We sat outside on the terrace. The toilets were the best I have seen in Armenia.
A very enjoyable experience, with excellent service for 10,000 AMD per person.
They accept all credit cards and have free wifi.
The restaurant also offer special wine-tasting of their vintages paired with corresponding foods.
Written June 14, 2022
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serj_wander
Moscow, Russia5 contributions
Nov 2022
Excellent winery and restaurant!
Be sure to try the trout in wine sauce with oranges and vegetables. Awesome dish, tender fish, insanely delicious.
Friendly staff and pleasant service, as far as I understand, a family business. A wonderful location with a beautiful view in the mountains, great music and a relaxing atmosphere in a cozy interior are included.
It's great to relax after the road and take a couple of bottles of wine with you. Staff will politely offer to try everything and compare before buying. You can order a professional tasting if you wish. I didn’t try the wine in the restaurant itself (driving), but the ladies with me liked it a lot.
It's great that such nice establishments can be found in Armenia! Success and prosperity! We will definitely visit again!
Be sure to try the trout in wine sauce with oranges and vegetables. Awesome dish, tender fish, insanely delicious.
Friendly staff and pleasant service, as far as I understand, a family business. A wonderful location with a beautiful view in the mountains, great music and a relaxing atmosphere in a cozy interior are included.
It's great to relax after the road and take a couple of bottles of wine with you. Staff will politely offer to try everything and compare before buying. You can order a professional tasting if you wish. I didn’t try the wine in the restaurant itself (driving), but the ladies with me liked it a lot.
It's great that such nice establishments can be found in Armenia! Success and prosperity! We will definitely visit again!
Written November 11, 2022
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Jyoti k
73 contributions
Apr 2021 • Friends
Absolutely recommended. It’s an hour drive from Yerevan, in the middle of lush green hills. A family run winery and restaurant that’s full of love. The wine tasting experience was really good and the owner (Armen) takes you through the making process of each wine. Most of their wines have won international awards and rightfully so. The food was also really, really good. The place has beautiful views and you could spend hours soaking in some good sun if you go in May. I would recommend staying over the night at Green Stone Boutique Hotel ( a really beautiful property with incredible views).
Definitely worth adding to your travel list for an unforgettable wine tasting experience.
Definitely worth adding to your travel list for an unforgettable wine tasting experience.
Written May 15, 2021
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GoPlacesKiwi
4 contributions
Aug 2022 • Solo
A really lovely location, great wine & food. If you really want to taste Armenian wine you should come here! The tasting is accompanied by a great meze of cheese, olives, sundried tomatoes etc. But the star of the show is the wine. I am taking an Areni Noir 2015 reserve home to New Zealand to see if I can impress some tough critics/friends. Thank you to the team for the wonderful experience.
Written August 30, 2022
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KazakhstanNeil
Belarus41 contributions
Nov 2014 • Solo
The Old Bridge Winery and Bed and Breakfast is located in Yeghegnadzor just off the Goris, Meghri road about 100 minutes out of Yerevan.
Owned by Armen and Ashkhen Khalatyan, it is a very small boutique winery that specialises in making wine using Armenian grapes, made mainly from Areni, Kahet and Voskehat varietals. They make 3 dry reds: a 2002, 2007 and 2009 as well as a slightly off dry white and a Grappa. All the wine is aged in Karabakh oak, even the white, for 2 years. The Grappa which weighs in at an impressive 63% alc comes in a wood matured as well as a non wooded versions.
First try of the 2009 red revealed a wonderful bouquet with a full fruit flavour, the bouquet of the 2007 is not as powerful as the 2009 but the flavour certainly shows the additional 2 years in the bottle. The 2002 is a magnificent experience showing an intense bouquet with an fruit driven taste and wooded flavour with a soft tannin finish and for just over $12 a bottle is a steal. The white, which is the most limited of their wines, was being bottled the next week so I only had a chance to taste some of the previous batches but is a wonderful drop, an interesting blend of fruit and wood with a hint of sweetness, in a white. Probably most reminiscent of a wood matured Sauvignon Blanc from Gloucester Ridge in Pemberton, Western Australia. Armen says it is 1.8% sugar content. The Grappa is a powerful experience and not for the faint of heart.
Although not generally open to the public, they are happy to welcome visitors on arrangement. Armen and Ashkhen also operate a Bed and Breakfast and arranged a lunch after the tasting. Lunch started with an amazing red bean and walnut soup, which is a regional speciality and really has to be tasted to believe. I would not have conceived of mixing kidney beans and walnuts in a soup but the combination is special. It also goes very nicely with the white. The soup was followed by a lamb leg casserole that must have been cooked for many hours as it was so tender along with just about every vegetable that I have ever seen. The lunch would have fed at least 2 people if not more. It was also a chance to try the wine with food as Armen had bottles of all the wine available with lunch.
The region also has a lot of other attractions. Yeghegnadzor is only 15 minutes from Vayk. The Darb River Canyon is just the other side of Vayk which is a stunning visual experience. There are many historical sites in the area. I could list some of them but visit web site http://www.virtualarmenia.am/vayots_dzor/bn/p10.htm for a more comprehensive list and description. Armen is a native of the area and knows all the areas and organises tours.
I would highly recommend a day trip to the region or a longer trip with overnight at the Old Bridge Bed and Breakfast.
Owned by Armen and Ashkhen Khalatyan, it is a very small boutique winery that specialises in making wine using Armenian grapes, made mainly from Areni, Kahet and Voskehat varietals. They make 3 dry reds: a 2002, 2007 and 2009 as well as a slightly off dry white and a Grappa. All the wine is aged in Karabakh oak, even the white, for 2 years. The Grappa which weighs in at an impressive 63% alc comes in a wood matured as well as a non wooded versions.
First try of the 2009 red revealed a wonderful bouquet with a full fruit flavour, the bouquet of the 2007 is not as powerful as the 2009 but the flavour certainly shows the additional 2 years in the bottle. The 2002 is a magnificent experience showing an intense bouquet with an fruit driven taste and wooded flavour with a soft tannin finish and for just over $12 a bottle is a steal. The white, which is the most limited of their wines, was being bottled the next week so I only had a chance to taste some of the previous batches but is a wonderful drop, an interesting blend of fruit and wood with a hint of sweetness, in a white. Probably most reminiscent of a wood matured Sauvignon Blanc from Gloucester Ridge in Pemberton, Western Australia. Armen says it is 1.8% sugar content. The Grappa is a powerful experience and not for the faint of heart.
Although not generally open to the public, they are happy to welcome visitors on arrangement. Armen and Ashkhen also operate a Bed and Breakfast and arranged a lunch after the tasting. Lunch started with an amazing red bean and walnut soup, which is a regional speciality and really has to be tasted to believe. I would not have conceived of mixing kidney beans and walnuts in a soup but the combination is special. It also goes very nicely with the white. The soup was followed by a lamb leg casserole that must have been cooked for many hours as it was so tender along with just about every vegetable that I have ever seen. The lunch would have fed at least 2 people if not more. It was also a chance to try the wine with food as Armen had bottles of all the wine available with lunch.
The region also has a lot of other attractions. Yeghegnadzor is only 15 minutes from Vayk. The Darb River Canyon is just the other side of Vayk which is a stunning visual experience. There are many historical sites in the area. I could list some of them but visit web site http://www.virtualarmenia.am/vayots_dzor/bn/p10.htm for a more comprehensive list and description. Armen is a native of the area and knows all the areas and organises tours.
I would highly recommend a day trip to the region or a longer trip with overnight at the Old Bridge Bed and Breakfast.
Written November 23, 2014
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Thank you dear Neil for your kind words! We hope to have honor to host you at Old Bridge b&b one day.
Written June 5, 2016
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Vahan H
Amsterdam, The Netherlands52 contributions
Sept 2020 • Family
This is a great place to visit with family! Owner is a person with a soul and incredibly imaginable hospitality! Really difficult to survive after all these taste and unique food and drink servings!
Written September 7, 2020
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Sevag D
Yerevan, Armenia95 contributions
Jul 2020 • Friends
One of the must visit places in Armenia. The service is beautiful, the owners are amazingly hospitable, the food is great! U will simply love it!!
Written July 4, 2020
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