Wine-making refers to one of the oldest occupations of man, and one of the most fertile places for winemaking is the Crimea. The association "Massandra" here includes a large winery and nine state farms-factories and produces many different brands of wines, both ordinary and vintage, unique. All wines are different, but they all have the highest quality, guaranteed by many years of experience of Crimean winemakers and the conditions in which grapes grow.

The village of Massandra is located on the outskirts of Yalta, and the plant itself occupies a rather interesting architecture building, built in 1894-1897 .The quarry, which make up the hull of the plant, fits perfectly into the surrounding terrain, and the cellars in which the wine is stored and ripen go into tunnels deep into the mountains .You can get to the factory by shuttle bus No. 40 (stop near the clothing market) or by private transport along the Yalta-Simferopol highway, following the road signs near the Massandra settlement .Address of the winery: g .Yalta, village .Massandra, st .Vinodela Egorova, 9 .

Excursions and tastings

The winery is open to visitors: here you can get acquainted with technological processes and, more interestingly, make a tour of the winemaking museum and the famous cellars (today they store about a million bottles of excellent collection wine of different brands and ages). Then in the tasting rooms - madern (for 35 people), sherry (25 people), Greek (72 people) or VIP (20 people) get acquainted with the taste and bouquet of wines that are produced in Massandra.

Specialists conducting tasting, are ready to tell a lot of interesting about winemaking and wines. They are sure to mention that not a single winery in the world can boast of such a wide and diverse collection of grape wines as here, they will tell that the beginning of the magnificent collection was laid by the patriarch of Russian winemaking Lev Golitsyn, who, sparing no effort funds, collected the best samples of wines around the world and created winemaking as an industry in the Crimea.

Association of Massandra in the international market

Only in the 90 years of the last century, "Massandra" entered the international market. This was preceded by serious work of marketing and advertising specialists. Today we can confidently say that Massandra wines are loved, valued and bought with pleasure in more than twenty countries.

A glorious page in the history of the association is associated with the wine "Sunny Valley", the bouquet of which is created by the unique properties of twenty different varieties of native grapes. In total, out of 9 million bottles of wine produced at the plants of the association for the year, about 50% of the products are exported, the rest is sold through the retail network and partner stores.

Tasting halls of the association "Massandra" in Crimea

Due to the fact that the peninsula of Crimea is one of the most famous wine regions in the country, wine tourism is developed here. A lot of people are coming here to get acquainted with the wines produced in the "Massandra" association, even more tourists, aiming for recreation at sea, join numerous excursions to the famous Massandra cellars and visit the tasting rooms.

In particular, in Alupka there is a tasting complex "Alupka" (Dvortsovoye shosse, 26) and the cafe "Massandrovskiy dvorik" at the same address. You can recommend visiting both, and another institution. If in the wine tasting room the wines are tasted under the guidance of a specialist and are offered in a certain order that will allow them to become more fully acquainted with the qualities of each of them, then the selection of wines in the cafe is at their own discretion.

Three tasting rooms are located in Alushta. Their address: st. School, 11; ul. Glazkritsky, 1; ul. V. Khromykh, 20 A.

Stores-partners of the association "Massandra" in Crimea

Great attention in the association is attached to cooperation with trade enterprises. In the partner shops of the association, sellers who have received special training are ready to talk about the peculiarities of a particular wine, advise the conditions of its transportation, storage and use. It is in the partner shops that a 100% guarantee is given for the authenticity and quality of the products.

Of course, we are not talking about the price of collection wines, which are sold in extremely limited quantities and exactly in the form in which they are stored in the cellars of the plant, which is one of the evidence of the authenticity of the wine. Talk about the price of collection wine can only be specifically knowing the year of production of wine and its brand.

Here you can buy gift sets, formed on the basis of wines spilled in souvenir bottles. The price of such sets ranges from 30 to 650 hryvnia. In the Crimea, partner shops can be found at the following addresses:

• Alushta, Lenina, 5-B
• Artek, "Gurzuf", st. Yalta, 1
• Gurzuf, "Gurzuf", st. Welcome, 2
• Evpatoria, Lenin Avenue, 32A; firm shop "Massandra" on the street. Frunze, 41

Do not forget that the medicinal properties of Crimean wines, determined by the presence of trace elements and enzymes in wine, are widely known and the wines are used to treat many diseases and strengthen immunity .Vitamins and amino acids contained in wine interfere with the development of atherosclerosis, trioksistilben helps slow the aging of cells in the human body and prevents the development of malignant tumors .Among other things, natural wine is a wonderful antibacterial agent, which was known back in antiquity .