Lazar Winery from Negotino was established in 2001 as a small family owned winery  by Lazar Ristov. The family has been grape producer for 4 generations, but the grape  production was sold to other wineries. There was small limited wine production  for home use only, where Lazar helping his grandfather and his father has become  attracted in wine production since young age.  After the finishing of the education Lazar has decided to start his carrier as winemaker  at his own family winery. The first start was at his family house with small production.  Wine was sold mainly directly to the local restaurants.  In the following years, Lazar Winery has been producing wines under several labels  as Fonko Wines and Châteaux Sopot wines as co-founder of the business. It was  successful operation since many labels were rewarded with different medals on wine  tastings, like first golden medal as for any Macedonian wine at Mundus vini in Germany  in 2004.  In 2015 Lazar Winery has decided to start wine production at present location close  to Stobi, the ancient town, on the sides of the E-75 highway Skopje-Thessaloniki at  1500m2 of production area, small boutique hotel and a wine & dine restaurant.  Today Lazar Winery has capacity for production of over 120.000 liters of wine or more  than 150.000 bottles annually. The winery produces various types of wines, sparkling  wine with charmat technology, still white, rose and red wines and sweet wines in total  with more than 20 labels.  Wines of Lazar winery are rewarded in many wine tasting competitions like Mundus  Vini, Decanter, BIWC, Concours mondial de Bruxelles and they are sold in 15 different  countries in Europe, Asia and North America