Please advise, how is the local wine? What would you recommend buying?
Brandy and beer are fine, wine is hit or miss.
I specifically want wine. Is there maybe some local pomegranate wine?)
There is local wine, different kinds, just look for something that suits your taste. I’ve tried local wine — sometimes it’s quite good, sometimes so-so. But the local brandy is mostly good. 'Kibrai' beer is decent too.
In the stores it’s mostly “Bagizagan” 😂 but that’s quite a drink…
Château Hamkor, if we’re talking about red dry. Very decent option for the price. As for wine, I didn’t find a huge selection of local ones. There’s plenty of imports, but I specifically wanted to try local producers. And yes, Kibrai beer — light and pleasant, though I’m not a beer expert.
Wines from Uzumfermer are the best local wines. They export as well. If brandy — Tanboor is a good local one. Vodka — Gold Uzbekistan. Our beer isn’t that great 
I’ll put it this way. Regular store wine will usually be very average or worse. If you’re really a wine connoisseur, you’ll most likely be disappointed. Private producers have young wine. There are a number of wineries like Château Hamkor and so on. They also produce wine for export. But the price there is much higher than average and you still have to find it in stores. Uzbekistan just isn’t a wine country. The wine culture simply didn’t develop. And that’s normal — Uzbekistan has many other wonderful things.how is the local wine?
I was pleasantly surprised by Pinot Noir from Château Hamkor. But Uzbek Pinot Noir differs from others — here it’s quite powerful, fruity, more like Malbec or Monastrell.
It was also interesting to try Shiraz from Bagizagan.
Among beer producers, in my opinion, the best is Craft Beer Company.
There are two chain stores with a good selection of both wine and beer — Lavini and Legion. And in general, you can try and taste local wines in Tashkent at the Wine Time bar (you can buy them there as well, or note the brands and then find them in the nearest liquor store).
It’s not that I’m a hardcore alcoholic — more like a beginner 😂. But wine and cognac factory tours are truly my weakness. I’m even a bit afraid of being disappointed after the wonderful wineries of Georgia and the шикарная tour at the Noy cognac factory in Yerevan (by the way, their prices are half of what Bazizagan charges).
As an alternative — the Shohrud winery in Bukhara. It’s older than Bazizagan, and tastings there are cheaper — 300,000 soum. I booked it without any problems (they have their own website). The winery is the oldest one, but they only have three types of wine — pomegranate, Cahors, and dry Saperavi. Not exactly a huge selection. Well, there are cognacs too. But I’m not insisting ))) Everyone chooses for themselves. We’ll have more free time in Bukhara, so we decided to go. Although we’ve also been to Georgia, and in Armenia at “Ararat,” and in Derbent at DZIV )))
Good evening, everyone. If anyone is interested — today we visited the Bagizagan Winery not far from Samarkand. The tasting was excellent. We liked everything. I recommend it to those who enjoy this kind of experience.
At the tasting we tried Chardonnay, Riesling, Shiraz, and something else as well. There was also cognac and chacha. Everything was good. We bought some of their products — Chardonnay and another wine, I don’t remember exactly which one. I don’t remember the price either. With their money it’s hard to keep track. But the price seemed reasonable — I think somewhere around $8–$10.