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There was a wine culture in today's Ukraine in the 4th Century BC on the south coast of the Crimean peninsula, from this time were winepresses and amphora found. In the north, it developed until much later in the 11th Century by monks. In the Middle Ages, the Genoese traded, who were then owners of today Sudak, with Krimweinen throughout Europe. Under Catherine II (1729-1796) was founded in 1783, the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Empire. Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin your favorite (1739-1791) made this land under cultivation and also promoted the wine. The Count imported vines from Italy, Spain and France, where the climate was very similar to the Crimea. Under him, the wine was available on this peninsula state matter. End of the 18th Century began to plot and garden distribution as private property. In particular, the ground around the town of Sudak was very productive and therefore valuable. Near Yalta, Count Mikhail Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov (1782-1856) in 1820 to create vineyards and building a large winery. Nearby he founded in 1828, the viticulture research institute Magarach .

Special credit is due to the wine to the Russian by Catherine II fetched into the country originating from Berlin German scientist and Academy member Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) who laid the Sudakgebiet large wine plantations. He described in detail the first 40 local varieties. Prince Lev Golitsyn founded in 1878, still existing winery Novy Svet (New World) in Sudak. A sparkling wine was first produced in 1799 in the climatically most convenient cities Sudak and Alushta. But the amounts were insignificant. As the founder of the famous Crimean sparkling wine (Schampanskoje Krimskoje) applies Golitsyn. Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918), he also founded the modern State Winery Massandra .

Ukraine has four major wine regions. This is in Slovakia , Hungary and Romania adjacent Trans-Carpathian region, the area in the southwest of the city of Odessa, the area south of the River Dnieper in the cities of Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk and the Crimea on the Black Sea to the port city and the famous spa town of Yalta . The continental climate is characterized by hot summers and severe winters to about minus 30 degrees Celsius. Mid-1980s was initiated by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich (b. 1931) started an anti-alcohol campaign. Extensive Clear The vine stock was halved. Among the vineyards in the Crimea is suffering today because it must be purchased grapes from abroad.

In 2007 were produced by 93 300 hectares 2.516 million hectoliters of wine. The most common varieties are Rkatsiteli, Aligote, Cabernet Sauvignon, Saperavi, Riesling, Sauvignon Vert, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Sercial, Bastardo and Feteasca. Important indigenous varieties are Kefessiya , Kokur Belyi , Soldaiya and Sary pandas . Major new breeds are Magaracha Bastardo , Olimpiiskii , Pervenets Magaracha , podarok Magaracha , Rannii Magaracha , Rubinovyi Magaracha , Saperavi Severnyi , Sorok Lyet Oktyabrya , Stepnyak and Sukholimanskii . Known brand wines are Alushta , Kagor , Naddniprjanske , Solnechnaya Dolina and Chorny Ph.D. .
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