The famous Massandra wine collection

• The famous Massandra wine collection

This collection is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the greatest treasure trove of wines in its multiplicity and uniqueness. During the war it was evacuated from the Crimea in the extraordinary order and numbered bottles favored in front of people, equipment, plants and museum exhibits. The collection has survived several difficult periods of history, and it managed to retain almost all the way to the present day.

Those who know the fault can be seen here is really unique copies of wines, some of which can only be seen in these cellars.

Part of the collection is available for viewing by visitors winery "Massandra", but the most valuable part of the usual tourist unavailable. This part you can see in this post ...

The idea of ​​creating a wine collection was due to the fact that the old wine irreproachable from the point of view, and gustatory qualities and uniqueness due to insignificant volumes of production, and the environment. All this has led to the fact that the wine began to be put on long-term storage, even in large quantities. He developed an interest in rare wines, wines for attachment to the wines certain years harvest. That is how the pack to create entire collection of old wines.

Massandra collection is one of the biggest, the rich and famous collections in the world. The beginning of the collection associated with the name LS Golitsyn. It is with great taste, hard, sparing neither strength nor the money collected for his collection of all the best that are found throughout the wine cellars of the world. In addition, since 1897, in the collection began to lay small amounts of all the wines that are produced itself "Massandra".

Massandra collection was always, without exaggeration, the historic relic of domestic wine, a treasure trove of the labor of thousands of people, in which each bottle, like a book, has its own content, its authors and its history. Many brands of wines presented a very small number of bottles.

The collection includes dozens of templates centenary drinks "Massandra" and many European countries. In 1941, when the Great Patriotic War, "Massandra" heroic efforts of the workers and experts at very short notice prepared and sent by sea to Novorossiysk and then in the deep back thousands wine bottles that are returned to the factory wall in just four years.

Now enoteca located in 10 galleries and has about I million bottles of unique vintage wines more than 800 items. Here, at a considerable depth, the temperature is always the same - 4-14'S.

In the gallery equipped with a deep stone niche. In each of them there are up to 300 bottles of wine a certain brand.

"Massandra" collection fund consists of three parts:

1. The museum fund, referred to in this post, and that is of great value. Present there, the wine can be called a "rarities". This fund will be stored forever, for posterity, as the assortment collection. Wines from it are not for sale.

2. Advertising Research Foundation and Training Fund - created to participate in salons, auctions and exhibitions; to study changes in wines at their long storage in bottles; as well as for training and familiarization winemakers specialists with unique samples of wines and the processes taking place during the maturation and aging of this divine drink. 3. Commercial Fund

All bottles capped with a cork "Extra" (tube filled with wax) and stacked in a horizontal position, without access to the interior of atmospheric oxygen. The external condition of the bottles is checked regularly, and every 15-20 years proiz¬voditsya replacement cork. The bottle is covered with vaults touch - "the noble dust of centuries", which serves as a kind of passport of the bottle and creates a certain charm. Therefore, rubbing and relining bottles in the collection is strictly prohibited.

Each tab has its own passport, which lists all the data about the wine, the amount and the dates when pereukuporka bottles made.

By the way, the device you want to guess yesterday designed just for pereukuporki processes. To be precise, it is used to crimp plugs which must be sealed to reduce the diameter. The thing is that the neck of the bottles of different years may be quite different in inside diameter and pick up a few copies of the stopper is problematic. Therefore, it is compressed by fitting a desired diameter.

Among the rare collection of samples of wine are foreign countries:

1. Muscat "Barcelona" harvest in 1828.

2. Sherry "India" Harvest 1870

3. Marsala "Flora" and Chateau "Ikem" Harvest 1865

4. Muscat "Lunel" and Jerez "Paharet" Harvest 1848

5. Madera "Ribeiro Secco" Harvest 1837

6. Sherry "Portuguese" Harvest 1847

7. Muscat "Tunisian," Sherry "of Santa Maria," Sherry "Gloria," Portwine "Consular" Harvest 1830 8. The oldest unique - "Jerez de la Frontera" 1775 vintage.

Most of the ones you see in this post.

In the meantime, I take a look some of the most interesting pieces of the collection from younger to older wines

By the way, during the German occupation of the Crimea, the factory "Massandra" did not stand and continued to work.

Some of the spilled wine in 1942-1943 can also be seen in the collection

See how often different bottles of the same wine brands

On some bottles you can see the figures applied white paint. It preserved evacuation marking

some bottles manufactured prior to the Revolution, one can see spetsianye stigma.

These wines were intended for his Majesty's cellars.

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Below the most rare and rare instances collection

And this is the oldest collection wine