We have passed 30 sharp turns along the road of world wine production and now we propose to narrow the frame and look at the history of wine in the territory that Russia currently occupies.
The Russian line has a torn biography - he was born in the Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast, then disappeared, then returned to Astrakhan with Persian vines, settled in Cossack cellars on the Don, hid in the royal tunnels of Messandra, survived phylloxera and anti-alcohol campaigns, the re-collapse of the state and return to the state.
Today, Russian wine production includes more than 110 thousand dunams of vineyards and 500 million liters of wine per year. This is a huge industry, and we suggest tracing its path.
20 turning points in the history of Russian wine production.
VI. The fourth centuries BC e.
The Greeks bring a cultural vine to the Black Sea.
Wine on Russian territory begins in the Greek colonies on the Crimean coast.
Around 600 BC e. Immigrants from Miletus (now a city in western Turkey) founded Panticapaeum, the future Kerch.
Around 543 BC e. On Taman, near the present village of Sanaya (Tamariuk district in the Krasnodar Territory), Pangoria appears.
Chersonesos, the future Sevastopol, arises later, in 422 BC. the.
During all this time, Greek settlers introduced cultivated vines and a love for wine.
We told you how Greek wine was here.