Crimea’s wines have absorbed the splendor of local nature, its brilliance and aromas. Massandra, the leader among Crimea’s wine makers, has, apart from its own wines, the world’s oldest collection of wines from France, Spain, Germany and Portugal. The collection’s gem is Jerez de la Frontiere of 1775 vintage. At Sotheby’s in 2001 one bottle of this wine fetched US $50,000. The local champagne Novyi svit is not inferior to its counterpart in France. Unique in their own right are also the wines from grape varieties that are over two thousand years old.
While in Crimea, make it a point of tasting the legendary local wines.