The Massandra association (Crimea) consists of the main large winery and nine state-owned factories that have names: Gurzuf, Livadia, Alushta, Tavrida, Privetny, Malorechensky, Sudak , "Veselovsky" and "Marine". Vine plantations have an area of about 4,000 hectares.
About the winery
The world-famous Massandra winery (Crimea) was founded by Prince L. Golitsyn in 1894. He chose the ideal place with an excellent microclimate for creating wine cellars - this is the mountainside near the city of Yalta. The plant was built very high quality. Its walls did not give a single crack during the earthquake in 1927.
The main basement vault was hollowed out in the rocks in 1898 and has seven tunnels fanning out from the central gallery. Each of them has a length of 150 meters and a width of about 5 meters. In the basement, the optimum temperature is maintained for the maturation and aging of wines - this is about 10-12 ° C. To wash the filling containers, spring water from the Massandra spring is used.
The benefits of Crimean wine
A distinctive feature of the company - all wine brands are made only from their own grapes. Plantations of the Massandra association (Crimea) stretch along the southern coast from Foros to Sudak, where there is a unique subtropical microclimate combined with crushed clay clay soils and mountainous terrain. These conditions favor the cultivation of grapes with unique taste properties.
The best varieties of Greek, French, Spanish and Rhine grapes grow on plantations. From it create dessert and strong wines, which are characterized by anti-aging and healing qualities. Using old and proven traditions of winemaking, experts do not add sugar and chemical additives to the wine material from which fortified, table or collection wine brands are made. Thanks to this,
Massandra wines are good for health. But you need to know that they bring benefits only at moderate doses: a man can consume 200 ml without harm to his health, and a woman - 150 ml of wine per day. Scientists have proved that in
red wine there are many elements important for human life.
Wine brands
The Massandra Association (Crimea) offers many varieties of different wines: semi-sweet and dry, fortified, liqueur and dessert wines. The Massandra collection is famous for the fact that each brand is unique. Today, their number is more than sixty species. Muscat is especially popular. For example, the white muscat of Red Stone has twice received the nomination of the best wine in the world at international exhibitions. Wine varieties vary in taste, but they all have excellent quality and many years of aging. This fact is proved by numerous awards of international exhibitions and tastings. All over the world, Crimean wines are considered one of the best drinks.
Massandra is a village that not only many Russians and Ukrainians know about, but also foreigners thanks to the winery. In its cellars, the unique varieties of this divine drink mature. There are stored more than 400 thousand copies and over seven hundred varieties of collectible domestic and foreign wines. The age of some of them reaches more than 200 years. In total there are about one million bottles.
Interesting Facts
At various international tastings and competitions, the Massandra association (Crimea) won various cups: ten Grand Prix and six Super Grand Prix. Also, the company was awarded 225 gold and silver medals. No other wine company has received more awards for its products. Massandra wines were exhibited three times at the international famous auction Sotheby's. In 2001, the oldest bottle of sherry left the auction for 50 thousand US dollars. Today, the oldest wine in the collection of the plant is the Spanish sherry of 1775 under the name Jerez de la Frontera. There are other species that are over one hundred years old.