Mundus vini has now become the most important wine competition in Germany and the biggest testing in the world, organized by the OIV organization.

Over 5700 wines from 44 countries have been evaluated bzy the international committee.

The total of 5726 wines and sparkling wines from 44 countries have been tested.

According to the regulations of OIV, medals may be received only 30% of the participants.

At the most important wine competition in Germany, the company’13.jul Plantaže’ is the winner of three awards: two golden and one silver medal.

Golden medals have been won by Vranac pro Corde and Vranac barrique, and the premium Vranac is the winner of the silver medal.

In a small town Merano in the Italian province Alto Adige, it has been for the 18th time in succession that one of the most beautiful wine exhibitions in the world –Wine Festival & Culinaria took place. It is on the second weekend in November that the most exclusive international event in Italy, devoted to wine has taken place and it is open for the producers of the quality products exclusively. This year the festival took place in the period from November 7th to November 9th in the imposing Kurhaus.

In order to provide the participation, it is necessary to send the wine samples to the festival address at the beginning of the year, which will be evaluated by the point system 100/100 points by the committee,consisted of 50 oenologists,sommeliers, wine cellar and restaurant owners. Within 5 months, they have tasted 4724 wines and selected 1314 wines by 512 producers. The wines will be selected by June and the selected wines must receive 86/100 points at least so that they may appear at the festival, representing by their taste and quality their geographical origin, tradition and culture. The wines must have expressed character through the strength, complexity and elegance as well as its elite character.The particularity about this Festival is that you may attend it only with the invitation by the organizer, and regardless the status in the wine world, each producer is treated equally.

‘Plantaže’: four awards at Novi Sad fair Company ‘Plantaže’ is the winner of four awards at the International Tourism fair, held in Novi Sad this September.

-Plantaže has won the Champion award Wine route for the wine tourism development, Grand golden medal for the national cousine of the Mareza restaurant as well as the golden medals for that restaurant and the Jezero restaurant.

Awards at the 42 nd Tourism fair have the special importance.

It is the first that we won the awards in the tourism and services sector which is,at the same time, the confirmation of our efforts to be at the top in all segments of business activities.

at the II International wine festival, held in Sarajevo, in the period 19-20 February, where over 90 wineries from the region and wider took part. Within the Festival, the wine contest by OIV( International organization of Vin and Wine) method was organized, at which the most renowned tasters and oenologists from the region were the members of the committee. Over 150 representative wines from the wineries from the countries of the region appeared at the wine evaluation.

’13.jul Plantaže’ may say with the pride that one of the confirmations of its wine quality are three won golden medals for the wines from the Vranac family: ‘Vranac pro Corde’, ‘Vranac barrique’ and ‘Vranac reserve’.

Besides it at the sales auction, the wine of ‘Plantaže’-premier 2000 vintage won the highest value of 450 €.

As the holder of numerous golden medals in the category of red still wines, ’13.jul Plantaže’, holds once again, with the pride, the name of the leader in the production of premium wines in the region.

Awards giving ceremony SUPERBRANDS in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009 was held last night in Sarajevo’s hotel ‘Europa’.Over 150 officials from the world of business,marketing and media attended this branding celebration. At the finalist list, grouped in 27 categories there were more than 800 local and foreign brands and it’s only 32 who won the medal SUPERBRANDS BiH for 2009.

Company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ was the winner of 2 awards for Vranac and Vranac pro Corde, for the second year in succession.

Company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ in 2009, launched about 2,5 million units of different products, out of which most of them belongs to the wines of Vranac and Vranac pro Corde.

Market research in B&H show that the consumers are very loyal to our company. Demand for the good wines has considerably increased compared to the previous period and today Vranac is the most sold wine in B&H.

By winning these awards, our company has become the recorder, because we are the only winner of four titles SUPERBRANDS at the market of B&H.

Vranac, the company "13 Jul-Plantaže, a winner of new awards at the recently held competition "LES CITADELLES DU VIN 2010", in the French town of Bourg. "LES CITADELLES DU VIN" International competition is the quality of wines and spirits, which is one of the world's leading events in the field of viticulture.

In the aforementioned competition, the commission has received wines from 20 countries worldwide. Wines are assessed according to the highest standards established by the organization OIV (Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin).

In extremely tough competition, the company "13th Jul-Plantaže "won three awards, one gold and two silver.

awards were received:

• GOLD-Vranac Pro Corde 2007

• SILVER Vranac barrique 2005

• Silver Top Vranac 2007

On June 17-20, 2010, in Budapest was held 11th VinAgora International Wine Competition. The competition was gained the patronage of key international professional organizations: OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine) and UIOE (International Union of Enologists.) This competition is also a member of VinoFed (World Federation of Major International Wine and Spirits competition) and called the Wine Compass of Central Europe.

In extremely tough competition, the company "13th Jul-Plantaže" won three awards.

Once again, our wines made of Montenegrin autohtonous vin varietyVranac, are the winners of new awards. These wines are:

Vranac 2007 silver medal

Vranac Pro Corde 2007 golden medal

Vranac barrique 2005 golden medal

The company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ has won a great number of the awards and recognitions: Grand Champion cup, 9 Grand Gold medals, 15 Gold medals as well as the Gold charter and Gold plaquette for high quality of the products and services at recently closed Food and Drinks Expo and 43rd International Tourism fair, arranged by Novi sad fair.These and other awards confirm again the quality of the products and services and thus,justify the leading position of the ’Plantaže’ in the Region.

Autumnal Novi Sad fair – Food and Drinks Expo 28.09.-01.10.2010.

1.Grand Champion cup

-for the production and quality of table grapes, fresh fruit and grapevine propagation material

2. Grand Gold medal for

- grapevine propagation material

- grapevine graft Vranac Paulsen 1103

- grapevine rootstoc k Paulsen 1103

3. Gold medal for

-Grapevine rootstock Rugeri 140

4.Grand Gold medal

-Nectarine: Morsiani

-Peach: Royal Glory

-Peach: Rhone star

5.Gold medal

-Peach: Maria Marta

-Nectarine: Rita Star

-Nectarine: Maria Aurelia

-Nectarine: Venus

-Nectarine: Big Top

6.Grand Gold medal

-Table grapes: Cardinal

7.Gold medal

-Table grapes: Victoria

-Table grapes: Mathilda

-Table grapes: Black magic

-Table grapes:Muscat Italia

- Table grapes:Pleven

- Table grapes: Alfonso Lavalle Ribier

- Table grapes:Red Globe

NOVI SAD AUTUMNAL FAIR -43rd International Tourism fair

1.Gold charter for quality

-for high quality of tourist-catering services

2. Gold plaquette for quality

-for Wine Road

3. Grand Gold medal

-restaurant ’Mareza’ for the quality of the gastronomic offer

4. Grand Gold medal

-restaurant ’Jezero’ for the quality of the gastronomic offer

5. Gold medal

-restaurant ’Jezero’

6. Gold medal

-restaurant ’Mareza’

Montenegrin Vranac is the winner of new Gold recognitions, at recently held wine contest in Slovenia.

At the 36th National Wine Contest ’ Wine Slovenia Gornja Radgona 2010’, held in the period 19th-23rd July at Gornja Radgona, Vranac,made by the company ’13.jul –Plantaže’,was the winner of two Gold and one silver medal.

It is the only wine contest of the international character in Slovenia for 2010.

At the wine contest this year, 231 wineries took part from six countries: Slovenia,Croatia,Austria, Hungary,Slovakia and Montenegro. International Commission, consisted of renowned and recognized oenologists,had a difficult task to announce the best in extremely strong competition.

Among 680 evaluated samples, the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ was awarded for the following wines:

Vranac Barrique 2005 –GOLD MEDAL

Premium Vranac 2007- GOLD MEDAL

Vranac pro Corde 2007- SILVER MEDAL

Official award ceremony shall be arranged during 48th International Agricultural fair AGRA, which will take place in the period from 21st to 26th August at Gornja Radgona.

Objectivity of the results and credibility of the recognitions of the awarded wines shall contribute to better marketing promotion and wine sales both at Slovenian and other markets of the EU.

At the World Exhibition in Shangai ’World EXPO 2010’, which takes place from May 1st to October 31st, at which Montenegro takes part for the first time after 105 years, it was after 58 days from the opening that our pavillion registered the one millionth visitor. The evaluation, at the very beginning of the greatest EXPO so far, was that the pavillion of Montenegro would be visited by over a million visitors by the end of this happening, at which 192 countries,50 towns and 50 international organizations take place.

However, an unexpected interest of the Chinese increased the number of the visitors to two million.

At the first ceremony,held on July 27th,in honour to the one millionth visitor,Miss Huang Jiali, in the presence of the media, she was awarded the certificate and the award,seven days staying in Montenegro as a present from the company ’13.jul Plantaže’.

At the second ceremony, held on September 30th, the same award was given by ’Plantaže’ to the two millionth visitor, Miss Jenny Yao with the certificate that she is the two millionth visitor to the Montenegrin pavillion.

’13.jul Plantaže’,as one of the sponsors of this Expo, will be one of the hosts to these winners, making the memory of their staying in Montenegro more beautiful with its wines.

International Horticultural Congress ’Science and Horticulture for people’ took place in the period from 22 – 27.08.2010.in Lisbon.This Congress is characterized with great thematic diversity. Within the Congress 18 symposiums, 14 seminars,18 thematic lectures,30 workshops and considerable number of the technical visits and post-Congress excursions. There were 110 countries , 3300 participants and even 4390 presented abstracts at the Congress.

’13.jul Plantaže’,as one of the Congress participants has presented two works: ’ Vranac selection in Montenegro’ and ’ Yield and quality of the grapes and wines of the varieties of: Vranac, Primitivo and Negro Amaro.’The works are presented as boards within the section ’Viti&Climate’, including thematically the influence of the climatic changes on the production and quality of the grapevines and its products.

Our presentations attracted a great attention of the Congress participants.

The company ’13.jul Plantaže’ was the winner of the new prestigious awards at the recently closed international contest, organized within the wine fair VINOVITA which would take place in the period 14-17th April of the current year at Zagreb Grand fair.

Within Zagreb Grand fair of this year in the category of dry wines 173 wine samples from Bosnia &Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Germany,Italy,Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Croatia. The wine contest was under the high auspices of OIV International bureau for wine and grapevine, seated in Paris.

In such a hard competition ’Plantaže’ has been the winner of three Gold and one silver medal. Vranac reserve 2004,Vranac pro Corde 2007 and Vranac Barrique 2005 won Gold medals and Chardonnay barrique 2008 won silver medal.

International recognitions are the confirmation of permanent high quality of our products over decades.

The wines of the company ’13.jul Plantaže’ won 5 Gold medals at the recently closed International 17th General BH fair ZEPS 2010.

Montenegrin Vranac, Vranac pro Corde, Vranac Barrique, Montenegrin Reserve and Montenegrin Krstač were awarded with the Gold medals, namely ’Gold Roses’.

General fair of Bosnia&Herzegovina ’ZEPS 2010’, the greatest and the most important fair happening, took place in the period from 5-10th October at the fair place of Kamberovića Polje in Zenica and collected 450 exhibitors from 25 countries.

This year Montenegro had the status of the country-partner and as such the most integral and the most group exhibition at the Fair. Our exhibition was in the focus of the interest of the business visitors and wide audience.

The company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ is well positioned at this market. Montenegrin Vranac and Vranac pro Corde are the holders of the title ’Superbrands’ at the market of B&H. Marketing research in B&H show that the consumers are very loyal to our company.The search for a good wine has increased considerably compared to the previous period and today Vranac is the best selling wine in B&H.

After a great number of succesful presentations at the international competitions this year, the company ’13.jul Plantaže’registered another great success in the EU.

At the International Wine Contest ’AWC Vienna 2010’ in Vienna, the company ’13.jul Plantaže’ was awarded with Gold medal for Vranac pro Corde 2007 and two silver medals for Vranac Barrique 2005 and Premium Vranac 2007.

’AWC Vienna 2010’ is the second wine contest in the world by volume and the only international contest in Austria,supported by the EU for giving awards for high quality wines. At the contest this year, 1733 producers from all over the world took part and in hard competition of 10.951 evaluated wines, ’Plantaže’ were awarded with three medals.

The results of this contest were published in the most comprehensive Wine guide Whitebook Wine 2010/2011.It is the most significant wine guide in German in which the best international wines and wineries have been represented in over 850 pages.Among them there are awarded wines of ’Plantaže’, as the confirmation that the high quality of Montenegrin Vranac is recognized at the European market,as well.

The wine Montenegrin Chardonnay Barrique 2008 won the silver medal at the recently held contest ’LES CITADELLES DU VIN 2011’ in the French town Bourg. ’LES CITADELLES DU VIN’ is the international contest , a part of the leading world events in the wine making field.

Within the mentioned contest, the Commission evaluated 899 samples of wine from 30 countries all around the world. The wines were evaluated by the highest standards, determined by the organisation O.I.V. (Internacionalna organizacija za vino i lozu).The jury awarded 261 samples totally, out of which 75 gold medals, 84 silver and 102 bronze medals.

At the prestigious contest ’International wine and spirits’, held in London, the wines of the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ won two bronze medals.

Montenegrin Vranac 2008 and Montenegrin Merlot 2008 won the bronze medals.

This contest has been held since 1969 and one of the most important contests of this type at the international level. The objective of this contest is the promotion of the best world wines and bringing the participants from 80 countries worldwide. The very process of the wine evaluation has been performed in two phases and lasts 6 months, comprises blind wine tasting and its detailed chemical and microbiological analysis. The wine samples are evaluated by the jury, consisting of the most respectable enologists and wine makers from 250 countries all over the world.

The ceremony of giving awards will be arranged on the 16th of November 2011 in London.

Prime minister of Montenegro, Igor Lukšić visited today the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’. On this occasion, prime minister Lukšić made talks with the members of BoD and executive director Verica Maraš, visited wine cellars ’Ćemovsko polje’ and ’ Šipčanik’ as well as the vineyards in the Ćemovsko polje.

The objective of the visit was the familiarization with the current state and business plans of the company ’Plantaže’ this year.

At the end of the visit, prime minister Igor Lukšić and the executive director of ’Plantaže’ Verica Maraš made the statements for the media.

President Lukšić stated that the ’Plantaže’ is the company which is not the Montenegrin brand only,but also the regional one,and on the day when Montenegro becomes formally a part of Europe, it will also be a remarkable European brand. It is both pride and respect to have such vineyards and capacities. ’Plantaže’ is the company which has a clear development vision, contributing considerably to the development of the Montenegrin economy.

The executive director of the ’Plantaže’,Verica Maraš pointed out that the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ and all its employees have the honour and pleasure to be today the hosts to the dear friends of this company, prime minister phD Lukšić and his associates.

The working visit is simultaneously the occasion to familiarise Mr Lukšić with the results this company has achieved, with the current state as well as with the development strategy of the company and whole viticultural and wine making sector of Montenegro.

Today, ’13.jul Plantaže’ is the one of the most successful Montenegrin companies, the biggest producer of the wine and table grapes here, the leader in the production of the wines of the premium quality on Montenegrin and other markets in the region.

The story of ’Plantaže’in 2010 also is the story about the successful company and the wine ’Vranac’-the most successful Montenegrin brand.

Creation of the brand ,lasting almost half a century ,is a big and huge business and we always point out that it is the job of the generations of the employed, demanding great investments and great efforts, time and wisdom, courage, zeal, know- how, experience and creativity.

Although 2010 was indicated as the year of the crisis in the world, it may be described for ’Plantaže’as the year in which good business results were achieved. We illustrate this with the facts that in this year we picked over 21 million kg of wine grapes of premium quality and 2,4 million kg of table grapes from over 10,5 million of grapevines .

We exported cc. 1,2 million kg of peaches,over 95 tons of fish and young fish, over 500.000 pcs of grapevine scions and 16,6 million of the bottled products of wine and grape brandy, namely 10.5 million lit of wine and 0,5 million lit of natural grape brandy.

By markets, the sales was as follows:in Montenegro – 6,3 million of the bottled products or 38%, in Serbia-5,5 million of the bottled products or 32%, in other export markets,in over 25 countries of the world it was sold 4,8 million of the bottled products or 30%.

The revenue was amounted to 32,3 million €, net profit 2,5 million €, with the gross operational margin (EBITDA)amounted to 7,2 million € or 22% of the total revenue.

We continued with the investment into the human resources and in two last years we have employed over 60 university degree employees of different profiles- vine-growers, technologists, enologists, economists,lawyers and similar.

We haven’t given up our strategic objectives-investment in development- expansion of existing production capacities, investment in new products, investment in human resources and environment protection.

Our investments in 2010 were over 4 million €.

-On the surface of 95 ha, we established a new grapevine plantation, amounted to 1,6 million € (in the last ten years on the Ćemovsko polje, there was established over 1.000 ha of the vineyard, fruit plantations and mother plots of the grapevine rootstocks, which is the safe basis and security for the future generations in the following 20 years).

- We invested in the state-of the-art equipment and processing capacities over 1,3 million €.

- We expanded our market offer with five new products: wine ’Medun’ and wine ’Rose`’ and three products on the occasion of 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Kingdom of Montenegro-Royal Vranac, Royal Krstač and Royal Kruna.

-There is a new website- we made our current and future consumers happy with a modern website (since April by now the site has been visited by over 35.000 visitors from 75 countries of the world);

-As a part of solving the environment protection issue there is a realization of the Project- the building of the Plant for the Production of Briquettes , by which the problem of the solid waste-pruned grapevine twigs has been solved in a very qualitative manner.

- In the crisis times, the social responsibility of the company becomes fully expressed-wheb the sports,science,culture,public services and unfortunately, in the conditions of the natural disasters-floods- ’Plantaže’ gave the support.

- In 2010, the company won over 80 prizes and awards both at the domestic and international fairs, exhibitions and evaluations of wine.

PLANS FOR 2011

The business policy of the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ in 2011 is directed to the long-term stable growth and society development, achieving good business results and further strengthening of the leading position which the products of ’Plantaže’ have at the Montenegrin market and the markets of the countries in the region.

Aiming at the mitigating and overcoming the negative consequences of the world economic crisis on the realisation of the determined business results the priority has also been given to:

-the efficient management with all resources at disposal in the Company, with the maximum protection of the environment

- high quality of products, especially premium wines

-stable production of large scale and standard series

- continuous development – big investments directed to the technologically intense and highly profitable products

- strengthening the competence advantages in the conditions of larger liberalisation and globalisation of the market as well as

- winning the new markets (focusing on the markets, less affected by the crisis: China, Russia and so on)

In 2011, the production of 20 million kg of wine grapes, 2,3 million kg of table grapes, 1,3 million kg of peaches, 480.000 bottles of the natural grape brandies, 17.342.000 bottles of wine, 650.000 grapevine scions and 100.000 kg of fish and young fish has been planned.

The planned increase of the revenues by the 18% rate in the amount of 38,1 million €.The planned costs in the amount of 35,4 mil € are on the level of the realised ones in the previous year, and the planned profit in the amount of 4,3 mil € is higher for even 53%than the one,realised in 2010.

The investment rise which began ten years ago has been continued in 2011. The planned investments amount to 5,5 million €.

In the development strategy of our agriculture we have chosen the good concept-the concept of the sustainable development of agriculture, clearly pointing out that it will not be valued the economic aspect of agriculture and its influence on the GDP only, but also the ecological and social component of agriculture as well as its support to the tourism development and national-cultural development.

The concept is good,there are resources,but they have not been used. What is the amount of these resources?

We know that the agricultural areas in Montenegro cover 38% of the total surface, 0,84 ha per capita. It is only 58.000 ha or 12% of total agricultural areas covered by plowed field, gardens, orchards and vineyards.

Regards viticulture, Montenegro has 4,400 ha or cc.17 million grapevines. ’Plantaže’ cover 2.310 ha of vineyards and over 10 million grapevines.

The areas for disposal for the establishment of new plantations are considerably larger (7,600 ha), which means that there is room in this activity to make the production almost double.

Thinking of it, we,in ’Plantaže’, ten years ago, provided the planting material for our own needs and for the needs of the Montenegrin producers (capacity of the mother plots of the grapevine rootstocks amount to over 2 million scions annually, which is sufficient for 400 ha of the vineyards).

This year we have made a decision to bestow 50.000 scions to the National Association of the Vine Growers and Wine Makers in order to stimulate the plantation of the vineyard and promotion of the autochtonous grape varieties ( for last two years, we bestowed cc.100.000 scions).

In that sense, at the last meeting , BoD made a decision on the buyout of market surplus of the grapes, by Montenegrin producers.

Company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ won the new recognitions at 78th International Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad. ’Plantaže’ is the winner of three new recognitions,as follows:

1.In the category the Best in the Agro business, the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ was proclaimed the best company in the production of wine and table grapes,wine and grape brandy.

2.’Plantaže’ won the recognition for the Best Regional Brand.

3.By the evaluation of the expert jury, ’Plantaže’ won the award for the Review of the production program and the corporate approach.

As a reminder on it, at the wine evaluation, done at the International Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad, besides the above mentioned awards, ’Plantaže’ won Great Champion cup for the premium quality of white,red and sparkling wines, 13 gold and 2 silver medals.

The wines of the company ’13.jul Plantaže’ won 3 great gold medal , one gold medal and one silver medal at the Wine Fair ’BeoWine Fair 2011’, held at the Tourism Fair 24-27.02.2011 in Belgrade.

Great gold medals were won by: Vranac Reserve 2004, Chardonnay Barrique 2008 and Vranac Barrique 2005. The gold medal was won by Medun 2007, and silver medal Val (extra dry) 2007. The wines were evaluated by the International jury, which is one more confirmation that the awards were given to the producers of the best wines.

At the Fair ’BeoWine Fair’ this year, over 105 exhibitors, wineries,vinotheques, wine houses-producers,importers and distributors of wine and wine equipment from Italy,Spain, France, South Africa, Chile,Argentina, Slovenia,Croatia and other countries will take part.

The celebration of handing out the awards will be held this evening at the Belgrade Fair at 18h.

At the wine evaluation, published within International Agricultural fair in Novi Sad, which will be opened on May 15th and will last until May 22nd,2011, the wines of the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ were awarded again with the series of recognitions. Out of 15 sent wine samples, thirteen were awarded with gold medals and two with silver ones.

Gold medals were won by: ’Crnogorski Vranac’, ’Vranac pro Corde’, ’Vranac barrique’ 2005 and 2007 vintages, ’Vranac reserve’, ’Chardonnay barrique’, ’Montenegrin Krstač’, ’Montenegrin Chardonnay’, ’Montenegrin Cabernet’, ’Sasso negro’, ’Medun’, ’ Crnogorski val’ and extra dry and semi dry wines.

Silver medals were won by: ’Merlot’ and ’Rose’and for such a high quaity of all wines, ’Plantaže’ were awarded with the Grand champion cup of Novi Sad Fair.

This Grand Champion cup as the ones, having been won for several years, are only the confirmation of the premium quality of our wines.

At the International Wine Fair, ’Vinitaly’ in Verona, the wines of the ’13.jul-Plantaže’ won the special recognitions, in the category of dry,red wines, vintages 2007-2008. Under the auspice of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine-OIV, among the competitors of 3720 best wines by 1000 companies, the award ’ Diploma di Gran Menzione’ for the continuation in the quality from year to year, for wines ’Vranac pro Corde’, premium ’Vranac’ and ’Vranac barrique’ . This is only one more confirmation that the wines of ’Plantaže’ , by quality, go shoulder to shoulder with the most renowned world wines .

The wines of ’Plantaže’were awarded with the medals at one of the greatest world wine contests, held in London, organized by the specialized magazine ’Decanter’.

The wines of ’Plantaže’ won two bronze and one silver medal.

’Vranac pro Corde 2008’ won the silver medal, ’Vranac Barrique 2007’ and ’Vranac Reserve 2004’ were awarded with the bronze medal.

The awards of ’Decanter’ confirm the status of Montenegro as the country of premium wines.

Awards ’Decanter World Wine Awards 2011’were given within the London Wine Fair, recently close in London.

London Wine Fair is the leading international fair of wine and hard drinks, gathering traditionally the leading world producers and distributors, and the exhibitors present the complete review of the world market.

This fair ids the leader in different trends and products which is the main aim of this Fair. This year, over 20.000 different types of wine were represented by 1500 exhibitors from all over the world.

A great number of local and foreign guests, respectable managers in the region, authority representatives, media and other guests attended the traditional ceremony of the announcement of the Best Managers of B&H, South-Eastern and Central Europe for 2011 at the hotel ’Holiday Inn’ in Sarajevo.

The executive director of the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ Verica Maraš won a prestigious award The Best Manager of the South –Eastern and Central Europe,awarded to her at the closing ceremony by a member of Presidency of B&H Bakir Izetbegović.

’ It is my great honour to be the winner of the prestigious recognition this year which both pleases and committs me to achieve better results and contributions, said on this occassion, Verica Maraš, the executive director of the company ’13.jul -Plantaže’ and added that ’this award represents certainly the recognition not only to me but also to all employed in the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ a.d., the wine house which focuses on the permanent and long term stable growth and development of the company, achieving good business results and further strengthening of the leader position which the products of ’Plantaže’ have at the market of Montenegro and at the markets of the countries in the region.’

The ceremony of giving recognitions’ The Best Manager and the Best Company’ of the South-Eastern and Central Europe was arranged by the Independent regional agency from Zenica in the Sarajevo hotel ’Holiday Inn’.On this occassion 25 recognitions were given to the best managers dealing with the different economy fields and the recognition of the ’Best Mayor’ and the ’Best Ambassador’ as well as the awards to the best in the fields of education,information and culture.

This year there have been cc.2000 nominees from 17 countries for winning the recognition of the Best Manager and only 25 best won the recognitions. The recognition ’Manager of the Year’ has become recognizable and acknowledged and famous in the region as the benchmark for the success of the managers and their companies (the same recognition both to the manager and the company he /she runs).

The International Agency of the Directorate for the Selection of the Manager of the Year is the only global and independent authority in the region of of the South-Eastern and Central Europe. It is present in about 30 countries of the region. Based on the strict criteria, this independent agency, identifies, appoints and promotes the extrordinary managers and the most prosperous companies, makes analysis on the achievements of the most successful and recognizes the ones who achieve considerably more than the others, so it awards them with the highly recognized status of the ’Manager of the Year’.

The best managers of Europe ’passed’ through this Project and the laureates and the winners of the Special recognitions were numerous renowned plenipotentaries, distinguished scientific, cultural and sports people, the most capable ministers, mayors, executives and journalists of the region.

The same day, in the morning, the Business conference ’ Regional Development of the Economy and Co-operation’ , at which the director of the ’Plantaže’ ,Verica Maraš had an expose ’’on the topic ’ Actual State and Perspective of the Development of Montenegrin Viticulture’ .

At the 37th National wine evaluation ‘ Wine Slovenia Gornja Radgona 2011’, the wines of the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ won the title of champion of the quality, grand gold, four gold and two silver medals.

Awarded wines of the ’Plantaže’:

Cabernet 2008.- Champion of the quality in the category of the red wines

Vranac Barrique 2007- Grand gold medal

Chardonnay Barrique 2008- Gold medal

Vranac Reserve 2004- Gold medal

Vranac Pro Corde 2008- Gold medal

Medun 2007- Silver medal

Vranac 2009- Silver medal

At the Wine Contest in Slovenia this year, 218 wineries from Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Montenegro, Macedonia, Hungary and Slovakia took part.In the period 18-21 st July four evaluation commissions evaluated 635 samples and awarded 16 champion titles, 36 grand gold, 131 gold and 213 silver medals, 222 samples without any award.

The objectivity of the results and credibility of the recognitions for the awarded wines will contribute to better marketing promotion and sales at Slovenian and other markets of the EU.

At one of the most prestigious world wine contests ’MUNDUS Vini’, held for the 11th time in Germany, the wines of the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ won two gold and one silver medal.

Among over 6000 competitve wines from 42 countries, the awarded wines of ’Plantaže’ are as follows:

•Vranac Reserve 2004- gold medal

•Vranac Barrique 2007- gold medal

•Vranac pro Corde 2008- silver medal

MUNDUS VINI is one of the most important wine contests, held in Germany, organized by the OIV sponsorship (International Organisation of Vine and Wine).

International Commission of this year has consisted of 270 members from 50 countries of the world. According to the propositions of this contest, only 30% of the registered participants may be awarded with medals. It is the fact that in the extremely strong competition, the greatest world experts have recognized the continuity of high quality of our wines, which will make possible their better positioning at the international markets.

Director General of OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine)Mr Federico Castellucci has visited the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ during his official visit to Montenegro.

Upon his arrival in Montenegro, Mr Castellucci , accompanied with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Tarzan Milošević had the reception at the executive director ’s of ’Plantaže’, Miss Verica Maraš. During the cordial conversation with the director and members of the management, the company and its current activities and achievements, was presented to the director of the OIV,followed by the wine tasting in the wine cellar ’Lješkopolje’. It is known that ’Plantaže’ make good wine,especially when it has been said by the chief of the OIV.’Vranac I tasted had a good body and what is most important,it has specific features.’

According to the program of the visit, on the second day, accompanied by the executive director of ’Plantaže’, Verica Maraš and director of the Viticultural-Fruit growing production, Duško Kankaraš, Mr Castellucci visited the vineyards on the Ćemovsko polje. Bearing in mind, it has been his first visit to Montenegro, which is one of 45 members of the mentioned international organisation, Director of the OIV has not hidden the satisfaction with what he had seen. In the conversation with the representatives of the company he pointed out the importance and relevance of the existence of the autochtonous assortment of the grapevines, highlighting that the autochtony is a very important characteristic for the struggle in the international market . He also stressed the autochtony as a relevant component in strengthening the identity of a country,so the image of Montenegro may be confirmed very successfully through wine in the international market.

Having visited Ćemovsko polje, Mr Castellucci has talked to the management of ’Plantaže’ and private producers of viticultural and wine making sector, on the issues of wine legislative of the EU, as well as current world trends in the wine making production.

Montenegro should expand the vineyard surface prior to entering the EU. Nowadays, as regards viticulture, there is 4,400 ha or cc.17 million grapevines in Montenegro , with the annual production of about 40 million kg of grapes. ’Plantaže’ covers 2.310 ha of the vineyards, over 10,5 million of the grapevines with the average annual production 22-23 million kilos of grapes.The potential surfaces for the establishment of the new vineyards are considerably larger (7,600 ha), which means that in this activity there is space for increasing the production almost as double, and we should devote seriously to it prior to entering EU.

Mr Castellucci visited all production capacities of ’Plantaže’ to get a complete idea of the ’Plantaže’.He was particularly impressed with the visit to the wine cellars. Accompanied with the executive director Maraš and director of the Processing Dept, Mr Franjo Djoković, he visited the wine cellar,as well, where he convinced that ’Plantaže’ applies the state-of the art equipment for the grape processing and wine making. In the talks with the representatives of the company, he stressed several times that he was impressed with what he had seen.

A great struggle has been fought in the wine market and every participant wants to take a part of the cake.Only the best succeed. The international market asks for the quality,and ’Plantaže’ achieves it and may be safe players on that market, confirmed by Mr Castellucci.

Executive director of ’Plantaže’, Verica Maraš, said that the visit of Mr Castellucci was very important for our country, regarding the fact that OIV gives the recommendations to EU concerning the standards in the viticulture and that he came at the right time for Montenegrin viticulture and wine making, sector with a lot of work ahead,if Montenegro gets the date for the negotation for the EU membership in October.

Director Maraš pointed out that Mr Castellucci information are first hand information, which is very important regarding the fact that Europe is the biggest producer and wine consumer in the world.

Montenegro,as a member of the International Organisation for Vine and Wine OIV, will have the full support of that organisation, especially in the field of scientific achievements in viticulture and wine making, adopting the European standards as well as the access to the information on trends on the world markets.

Thanks to a heart warming hospitality and friendly reception, Director of OIV invited the company ’13.jul Plantaže’ to organize together with the private Montenegrin producers the presentation of the Montenegrin wines, in the main office of OIV in Paris, by the end of this year or at the beginning of the next year.

Pursuant to Art.31 Law on the Scientific-Research Work (’Official Gazette of Montenegro’, No.80/10), The Ministry of Science has issued the LICENSE to the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’ for performing scientific-reasearch work in the field of agricultural sciences. Thus, ’Plantaže’ has been the first company in Montenegro that obtained that license.

Our dear customers can now find Plantaze wines at the most exclusive locations in the world, such as the most beautiful part of New York, and other locations of the high end restaurant chain Wolfgangs Steakhouse (more info about this chain on http://www.wolfgangssteakhouse.net) It looks that Vranac Barrique is great with worldwide meals!

At recently closed wine contest in China -‘China Wine Awards 2011’, the wines of the company ‘ 13.jul-Plantaze’ won three new awards.

The medals were won for:

VRANAC 2009 –gold

VRANAC RESERVE 2004 – gold

VRANAC BARRIQUE 2007- silver

VRANAC PRO CORDE 2008 – bronze

MEDUN 2007- silver

In the primary focus of this competition are the wines, demanded by the Chinese consumers, buyers and distributers.Among the jury, there were people who know very well the taste of the Chinese consumers and are very experienced and specialized for the demands of this market. In the commission ‘China Wine Awards’ (CWA),there were main decision makers concerning the wine import to this market, distributers, owners of the biggest restaurant and trade chains in China and sommeliers with the main office in China.

Chinese market officially registers the highest growth rate of the wine consumption in the world.The data show that in 2010 China imported 265 million lit of wine and the annual growth rate is 58%. A great interest of the Chinese partners for the wines of the company ’13.jul-Plantaze’ is the result of our long term activities at that market and we hope that these awards will contribute to better positioning and sales of our wines.

Gil Lempert-Schwarz (Las Vegas-Review-Journal)

Grapes: cabernet sauvignon (85 percent), merlot (10 percent), barbera (5 percent)

Region: Lake Skadar Valley, Montenegro

Vintage: 2008

In the glass: Plantaze Vranac wine is a deeply opaque blackish-red color with a dense purplish core going out into a saturated crimson-red rim definition with naturally high viscosity.

On the nose: The wine explodes with olfactory sensations led by blackberry liqueur, creme de cassis, plum wine, boysenberry sauce, blueberry pie, phenols, vanilla, creme brulee and soft black licorice.

On the palate: The wine attacks with concentrated black fruits, melted licorice, black currant juice, spice box, chewing tobacco, cherry liqueur, well-integrated tannins and soft creme de cassis. It has a smooth and well-balanced midpalate and a lovely finish that comes as a surprise from this relatively unknown grape variety that, by the way, grows only in Montenegro.

Odds and ends: This is one of the most interesting wines I have tasted in a long while. Not that I don't taste a lot of wines from various strange appellations and regions, but it's hard to imagine a wine made from the indigenous vranac grape variety to perform so nicely in a blind tasting against wines from Spain, Italy and France.

What's also interesting is that if you consider that Italy looks like a long boot on a map and you just jumped into a boat and sailed straight across the narrow Adriatic Sea around where the Achilles heel (of Italy) is, you'd arrive right at these vineyards in Montenegro, so it's very much a European wine we're tasting here. The vranac grape variety is not too dissimilar to primitivo from southern Italy and that, in turn, is related to zinfandel from California, so you know to expect a sturdy, full-bodied wine here. It is just perfect for any hearty meat dishes at this time of the year. Give it a good hour out of the bottle before serving, perhaps in a decanter. Drink Plantaze Vranac now through 2015.

The San Antonio Wine Competition, a prestigious wine judging was held on 28.01.2012, is now celebrating its twelfth year.

Two wines of company Plantaze participated in this competition and won two medals: silver for Vranac Pro Corde 2007 and bronze for Vranac Barrique 2007.

Numerous wines from all over the world took part in the competition in 40 categories. The festival gathers a highly experienced and talented panel of and various wine connoisseurs. The diverse backgrounds of these judges ensure a balanced selection of gold, silver and bronze medalists.

The wine Vranac Reserve 2005, made by the company ’13.jul-Plantaže’a.d, won Great Gold medal at the Wine contest in China (The China Wine Awards), held three years in succession on the 18th of September, at the hotel ’Mira’ in Hong Kong.

Besides Vranac Reserve, Vranac Barrique 2007 also won the gold medal, while Vranac pro Corde 2009 won the silver medal at this contest.

CWA is the only wine contest in the world, exclusively related to the Chinese market and completely focused on the preferences of the consumers and demand of this market.

The wine evaluators are the main decision makers in the growing Chinese market,consisting of key wine importers, distributors, wholesale traders,owners of the group of restaurants and sommeliers with the seat in China,because they know best the requests of the Chinese consumers.

The contest CWA (the China Wine Awards)discovers the wines which will be the blockbusters in China.

Receiving these awards will be of a great importance in our further marketing activities in the Chinese market. Great gold medal represents an extraordinary success for Vranac, confirming again the premium quality of our wines.

The Company "13.jul- Plantaze", in one of the largest and most prestigious wine competition in judging “AWC Vienna 2012 " in Vienna, and this year continue the tradition of winning the brightest medal.

In the competition of 11,500 wine samples from 37 countries, through absolutely anonymous testing system that provides equal opportunities to each participant, wines "Plantaze" was awarded with eight medals:

• Vranac, vintage 2009 - gold medal;

• Vranac Pro Corde, vintage 2009 - gold medal;

• Vranac Barrique, vintage 2008 - gold medal;

• Premier, vintage 2000 - gold medal;

• Medun, vintage 2008 - gold medal;

• Vranac Reserve, vintage 2005 - silver medal;

• Cabernet, vintage 2009 - silver medal;

• Merlot, vintage 2009 - silver medal;

Since this is the only international wine judging in Austria, which is supported by the European Union with a tendency of awarding to high quality wines, it represents a tremendous acknowledgment for the wines "Plantaze" by world experts in the selection of the best wines from all over the world.

It is especially important to point out that wine with a gold medal won over 90 points, which is a remarkable achievement.

With this success, thanks to the high dedication and commitment, we once again justify the premium and consistent quality of our wines from year to year.

The company "13.jul- Plantaze" has won a great numbers of the awards: Grand Champion cup, 4 Grand Gold medals and 16 Gold medals, at the recently completed exhibition of food and drinks and 45rd International Tourism fair, which was held by Novi Sad Fair, organized in the period from 28.09 - 30.09.2012 year.

Deputy Director of wine-fruit production, Mr. Goran Brnović took award on behalf of the company "13. jul-Plantaze" at the ceremony held on Friday, 28 September, at the fair in Novi Sad.

EXHIBITION OF FOOD AND DRINK

1. Big Champion Cup:

• The production and quality of table grapes, peach and grapevine propagation material

2. Four Grand Gold Medals:

• Table grapes Cardinal

• Big Top nectarines

• Grapevine propagation material

• Grapevine graft Vranac Paulsen 1103

3. Sixteen gold medals for:

Table grapes

• Table grapes: Victoria

• Table grapes: Matilda

• Table grapes: Black Magic

• Table grapes: Muscat Italy

• Table grapes Pleven

• Table grapes Alfonso Lavalle Ribier

• Table grapes Red Globe

Peach

• Peach: Royal Glory

• Peach: Rome Star

• Peach: Maria Marta

Nectarine

• Nectarine: Morsiani

• Nectarine: Rita Star

• Nectarine: Maria Aurelia

• Nectarine: Venus

Grapevine rootstocks

• Rootstock Paulsen 1103

• Rootstocks Rugeri 140

The wine Montenegrin Chardonnay Barrique 2008 won the silver medal at the recently held contest

’ LES CITADELLES DU VIN 2011’ in the French town Bourg. ’LES CITADELLES DU VIN’ is the international contest , a part of the leading world events in the wine making field.

Within the mentioned contest, the Commission evaluated 899 samples of wine from 30 countries all around the world. The wines were evaluated by the highest standards, determined by the organisation O.I.V. (Internacionalna organizacija za vino i lozu).The jury awarded 261 samples totally, out of which 75 gold medals, 84 silver and 102 bronze medals.