For more than 150 years, the Crimean peninsula is famous for its grapes and excellent wines. Muscat grape varieties and drinks made from it are especially appreciated. True Crimean Muscat is a two-year-old dessert vintage drink with a very bright bouquet and citron notes. The cost of such a wine is very high.
New technology
In order to reduce the cost of nutmeg wine without losing taste, a technology was developed to make the drink muscatel. It is distinguished from nutmeg by varietal composition. It is usually complicated. In addition to nutmeg, various European grape varieties are added to it). Manufacturing techniques also differ. Nutmeg wines are made with extreme caution. After all, the aromatic substances of this grape variety are easily oxidized, and a specific bouquet disappears. While a Muscatel (Black Massandra, for example) produced according to the usual technology of dessert wines. Matters and endurance. All nutmegs are branded drinks, but nutmegers are ordinary wines.
Crimea, Massandra
The small resort town of Massandra is located at the foot of the most beautiful Crimean mountains on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula. In Massandra, families with children love to relax. It is quiet and comfortable. Juniper and pine groves alternate with picturesque beaches. The city is considered a balneological resort and the capital of the famous Crimean wines. The Crimean wine cellar known throughout the world is also located here. It was opened thanks to the initiative of Lev Golitsyn, who was called the prince-winemaker. The place was chosen personally and carefully: Crimea, Massandra! This was reported to the emperor with a description of the amazing Massandra microclimate.
The basement complex was ready in three years and became the best in the world. Seven tunnels at a 50-meter depth (each 150 m long!) Ended with special ventilation shafts. In these tunnels, wine was aged in oak barrels. After bottling, wine in bottles aged in nine galleries in special niches made of stone. They could have a million bottles at the same time! The whole vast territory of the basement was electrified, and special lifting mechanisms were organized for workers.
Unique factory in Massandra
Today, the Massandra winery is world famous. His wine collection (over a million bottles) has been in the Guinness Book of Records since 1998.
The Massandra association consists of nine factories, the main of which is the Yalta Vintage Wine Factory.
The wines from this famous Massandra cellar have won numerous awards at international competitions and exhibitions more than once.
Drink muscat "Black Massandra"
This wine belongs to ordinary fortified dessert sweet wines. It is made by the method of incomplete fermentation from grape must extract on the pulp. The wort for the production of such a drink as the Black Massandra butcher consists of European grape varieties (65-72%) and nutmeg varieties (28-35%) with a sugar saturation of at least 19%. Then the drink is fixed with ethyl alcohol.
The berry is collected for processing upon reaching a sugar content of 20% or more. The finished drink is aged in the cellars of wineries Alupka. The manufacturing process is patented by NPO “Massandra” Crimea.
The color scheme of the muscular system varies from dark ruby to saturated. Alcohol content - 16%, sugars - 15%, acidity 5 g / dm 3 .
The drink is an aperitif. The taste is slightly spicy and filled with notes of exotic fruits. The aroma is sweetish with bright tones of muscat, the finish is very seasoned, soft, warming. The Black Massandra butcher leaves a light peach taste in the tongue, interspersed with the aroma of Chardzhou melon and medlar.
The wines of the famous Yalta basement rarely leave anyone indifferent. And if men prefer strong vintage wines, then the lady is delighted with such a drink as the Massandra Cherny muscatel. Reviews of the weak half of humanity are off-scale emotions. They call him magnificent, they say that his head does not get heavier, it goes well with desserts. Wine connoisseurs call the “Muscatel Black” from “Massandra” a hoppy sweet and dessert king!
Cooking magic
Wine-butcher "Black Massandra" refers to ordinary, dessert wines . They are prepared wherever viticulture is developed. Distinguishes ordinary dessert wines from the rest accelerated aging.
Grapes for the butcher are harvested late, with maximum ripeness, often waiting until the berry begins to fade.
The ridges are separated, the pulp is sulfonated. For the production of the accelerator, gravity wort is used. Fermented in it about 2 g / 100 cm 3 . Then the fermenting wort is alcoholized to the required condition. The pulp for the manufacture of wine material for the butcher is slightly fermented or heated to 55-60 0 C.
In order to accelerate the maturation of wine material and enhance dessert tones, they are pasteurized or subjected to thermal aging of the blend at a temperature of about 40 0 C. At the same time, aeration is limited.
Conclusion
A bottle of Massandra’s butcher is always dark. The cork is made of cork wood and has the logo (squeezed out) of MASSANDRA, which is visible in the window of the heat shrink cap. Since 2004, Massandra drinks have been bottled with a capacity of 0.75 liters.
Sometimes you can find bottles of the drink the “Black Massandra” butcher from the manufacturer “Privetnoye”. This plant is an official branch of the Massandra Public Joint-Stock Company. Bottling of wine on the lines of the Privetnoye plant is slightly different. A bottle with a capacity of 0.7 liters has a flat bottom, on the cork, label and shrink cap there is a sign of GWP “Privetnoye” (instead of “Massandra”). The date, month and year of filling is indicated on the sticker (only!). There are also differences in the name: an extruded “Chervone” sign.