Tania Olevska #21
Wine tours around Ukraine and abroad
My name is Tania Olevska and I am an owner of the Friends Wine Travel project, the only specialized wine travel agency in Ukraine, and a tour leader. I do love what I do: travelling with great company and good wines! I developed 6 guided tours to different regions of Ukraine: Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odessa and the Mykolaiv region, the Kherson region, the Transcarpathia region, the Khmelnytsky region. I’m always open to discover new wine destinations.
This year, we discovered Georgia, Sicily and Crete Island as new wine destinations. In 2022, we plan to travel to Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia. In the summer, we travel to the sea or to the river, in the spring and fall we have trips to the amazing mountains. Also, we like to visit wine festivals all over Ukraine and abroad.
Being a tour leader
As a tour leader and a guide, I’m always involved in all the processes: logistics, accommodation, wine and gastronomic locations, breathtaking views, historical and cultural background of the terrain. I like to collaborate with local partners who also love what they do. I collaborate with wineries that are hospitable and have tasty wines. I’m happy when my tourists are happy and satisfied. I am led by love – in every step and to all my tourists and partners.
Achievements of Friends Wine Travel
For the last 2 years, we made a real breakthrough in the Ukrainian market of travel. We visited 30+ local wineries. Tours combine several key aspects, such as wine tasting, local food tasting, wine and food pairing, sightseeing, culture and history of the region. We organized more than 30 wine tastings excluding tours reaching around 200 tourists.
Reviews
Traveling with Friends Wine Travel is a completely different level of travel. Wine tourism should be just that. Always interesting places and wineries, meeting a variety of winemakers, warm meetings, interesting tastings, a well-thought-out program, small groups, attention to all tourists and comfort in everything. In my case, these were trips of one day, trips to different points of Ukraine for several days, and even a foreign trip to Georgia. Each time it is interesting and each time you get much more impressions than you expect. Your task is only to collect things and arrive at the appointed place and time. Then you put yourself in the hands of the caring Tanya Olevska and dive headlong into an incredible journey.
Traveling with Tania Olevska and Friends Wine Travel is always DELICIOUS, tasty in format and content. It’s always cognitive, obtaining knowledge, as well as soulful. These “warm” emotions keep you warm for a long time after the trip… Thank you, Tanyusha for your work and thank you fate for meeting you❤️
Thanks to traveling with Tanya and Friends Wine Travel, I discovered not only the diversity and charisma of Ukrainian winemaking, the hospitality of winemakers, but also the diversity of our Ukraine: a beautiful country with gorgeous views and interesting attractions. Thank you, Tania!