Winemaker

Maja Aleksić

Discipline: Winemaker
Venue: Aleksić Winery · Winery

Portrait of Maja Aleksić

i. Biography

Maja Aleksić has been the public face and steady voice of Aleksić Vinarija in Vranje since 2017, and she speaks about the winery with the clarity of someone who knows its chronology by heart. Her account is spare, but it carries the force of lived experience: the vineyard and cellar are not presented as a romantic backdrop, but as a place shaped by time, labor, and a determined sense of purpose. She is frank about the changing landscape of work there, and equally direct about what the winery is trying to become. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who represents the estate not with flourish, but with conviction—measured, precise, and grounded in the daily reality of making wine.

At a Glance - Role: spokesperson, dated 2017. - Workplace: Aleksić Vinarija, Vranje. - Origin point: the winery was registered in 2007 and began selling in 2012. - Working principle: “At the winery, there is no division by gender.” - Stated aim: “We will create wines of recognizable quality.” The winery’s own timeline, as Maja tells it, gives her work a clear sense of scale and evolution. “We registered in 2007, and back then everything was reserved only for men,” she says, compressing years of change into a single, unsentimental sentence. That bluntness is part of her register; there is no embellishment, only the plain statement of how things were and how they have moved forward since then. The fact that the winery started doing sales in 2012 marks another step in that progression, a practical turning point rather than a ceremonial one. In her telling, the emphasis is always on the work itself—on the patient, cumulative effort required to build recognition and, eventually, trust.

Signature

Maja's signature wines include Tamjanika. As a signature variety, Tamjanika sits naturally within the story she tells about Aleksić Vinarija: a wine that suggests identity, continuity, and a sense of place without needing to overstate any of it. The name is notable on its own, yet in Maja’s framing it belongs to something larger—the steady shaping of a winery that is still defining itself through quality and discipline. The aspiration is not grandiose, but it is exacting. “We will create wines of recognizable quality,” she says, and the line reads less like a slogan than a working principle, a promise tied to repetition, standards, and the long view.

In Their Words “At the winery, there is no division by gender.” “We will create wines of recognizable quality.” These two sentences, placed together, capture the tone of Maja Aleksić’s profile better than any elaboration could. One speaks to the culture of the workplace; the other to its ambition. Between them lies the shape of her role at Aleksić Vinarija in Vranje since 2017: not simply to speak for the winery, but to articulate its discipline, its history, and its intent with unwavering simplicity.

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