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moisture mold fills my lungs I'm in the cellar of champagne Noviy Svit in Crimea. My eyes begin to adjust to the dark cellar, and I can begin to eye some of the area.
I hold a single candle as my only source of light, I see row after row of bottles filled with the aging of champagne in front of me emerging.
The guide told me in a voice that stoic Russian Czar Nicolas II wandered these halls as we walked through long corridors. "Noviy Svit was Lev Golitsyn and the legacy of love Ukraine.
Now, more than 125 years after its founding, Novy Svit Crimea producer remains one of the former Soviet Union Premier Champagne vineyards production. The area is located north of the famous southern peninsula, Noviy Svit retains much of its old world charm, with a villa of the beginning of the century overlooking the Black Sea coast and white, the squat brick houses dot the landscape around him.

After a long wait to visit some wineries of Ukraine, after arousing the interest of wine several years ago, after visiting some French years and German wineries and enjoy this elixir several.
You can choose lots of vines in Ukraine, but eventually you have to do is the old fashioned way, you taste through the selections available on the market today. Nothing else can you tell if the wine suites to your taste or not. I can recommend five places to visit, Sparkling Wine Company Odessa, Novy Svit, Inkerman, and the famous Massandra Koktebel.
Well I've never been a fan of the type of dessert wines Massandra specializes in, I think that the exclusion of a trip to Ukraine's oldest and most famous Winery is incomplete and does not do justification to the selection of wines in Ukraine.
Other notable wineries include Crimean Zolota Balka, Oktiabyrska Niva and Odessa.

Prepare for Roederer
The first stop was Odessa. First enjoy a breakfast with a cappuccino, eggs and potatoes in a restaurant on the street Derebasivska comfortable before making my way to Odessa Sparkling Wine Company, which is about 10 minutes drive from the central station on the boulevard Frantsuzkiy.
Today, much of the company's production takes place in the same building in which sumptuous it was founded in 1896 by the French company Henri Roederer, which produces wines by the method Classic champanization.
Little is known of the fate of Roerderer. The man himself seems to have simply disappeared from the wine scene of Czarist Russia. What is known, however, is that society has become a leading producer of champagne in the Russian Empire.
In 1952, Odessa passed to the production sparkling wines using locally developed technology, which accelerates the process champanization. Although the company can produce 15 million bottles per year, it operates at only half the capacity of Ukraine due to the unstable economic situation. Odessa has, however, still export abroad, Russia, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Great Britain and the United States, among others.
With 140 awards to its credit, Odessa is planning to release a line of elite sparkling wines in the historic label Roerderer attempt to capture more of high-end market, whose owners can afford a bottle of $ 70 or more.
Visitors can sample different wines sparkling Odessa during organized wine tastings. When obtaining a sample of their sparkling wine, turn on a tap technician on the big tank where champanization occurs, and can drain freely into a liquid foaming plastic jug. This pot turned into another and yet another as co-workers gathered around a table and offered me chocolate and their stories of life and in the afternoon.

The delicate Massandra
The next step Massandra winery is located four kilometers from Yalta on the southern coast of Crimea. semi-arid/subtropical climate of the area infuses the grapes used Massandra in wines with a taste all its own.
Massandra is majestic. Against a backdrop of mountains, the complex was built in the form of a quadrilateral in 1894-1897 by Golitsyn, the founder of Novy Svit and a man regarded by some as the father of winemaking in Tsarist Russia.
The winery has long tunnels are deeply rooted in the granite mountains, thus ensuring the low temperature necessary for perfect wine aging in oak barrels and vats.
For 40 grivna (the local currency, eqvivalent about $ 5), visitors can visit the complex of Massandra, and see his extensive collection of wines from around one million bottles, and also enjoy a wine tasting. The oldest bottle in the collection is a 1775 Massandra Sherry Spain; a bottle Sherry Andalusian the Frontera was recently sold at auction Sotheby's for $ 50,000. Previous Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma had personally approve the sale, he said.
The tour of Massandra worthwhile, if only to see the collection, which is covered with dust and cobwebs, each bottle with its own history. It is fascinating to see up close the Russian imperial stamp on some of the uniquely shaped glass bottles.
Tasting takes place in a bright room with a majestic view of the mountain gives you a lesson, not only in the art of wine tasting, but in liquids most famous Massandra.
The tasting consisted of nine wines, highlighted by samples of the only dry wine Massandra product – its table wine Red – is the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and Saperavi Morastel grown east along the coast near Alushta. Then there is the Livadia Red Port, the oldest Massandra wine, first produced in 1891.
But the jewel is the White Muscat of Red Stone. After trying it once during the Soviet era, It is said that for several years II Queen Elizabeth of England regularly ordered this dessert wine, which was secretly delivered to it by boat.

Welcome to the New World
Noviy Svit is a hike of three hours by bus marshrutka is used here, along Yalta type bucolic road that takes his breath. Along the coast, with the Black Sea on one side and off the peninsula jagged mountains on the other.
The bus stops at Sudak, where you can get a good view of Sudakska Krepost, Genoese fortress of the city. Noviy Svit is located approximately eight kilometers of Sudak in a picturesque cove.
During the summer, tourists can walk to the cellar, which offers tastings throughout the year, while in the off-season, most find it is better to take a taxi from Sudak and the driver either wait or go with them.
Walking Walking around Noviy Svit, it is not surprising that Golitsyn made this place his home, and fosters simply beauty. Golitsyn, however, has more interested in beauty.
He chose the location because it provided a good climate for the type of grapes needed to make champagne. The heart Manufacturer of wine and soul went into Noviy Svit. Walking through the arches, which, like those of Massandra, lead in the mountain. Here in these mountains Golitsyn has applied his knowledge of wine, viticulture just doing the best champagne he could.

Idea for a good taste
Another 40 kilometers north of Novy Svit Koktebel is worth a visit for everyone. Back to the West Coast, we find the Inkerman winery, located near the port of Sevastopol animation.
The region consists of small vineyards here, but then what distinguishes Inkerman is out that unlike many vineyards Ukrainian, it remains the ages his wines in oak barrels stored in large abandoned quarries.
Inkerman takes tradition of the neighboring colony of ancient Greece Chersonese, where the wine on the territory of the current Prime Ukraine began in the 4th century BC
This area is a link to our past, and when you try one of the many wines of Inkerman, dry and sweet as you feel in your throat, as wine makes its way through your body. There is a long tradition of winemaking here and you can literary feel when you are present at this location. In its way, the wine itself was remembered part of Ukrainian history.

I wish you good luck if you try to visit this region and its fascinating history and wines. You will not regret this visit, I assure you. However, please do your homework first, sample selection Ukrainian and make your own itinerary for your next visit.