Bakhmut. The World of Sparkling Wines

A New Year's table is hard to imagine without a bottle of sparkling wine, which creates a wonderful sense of celebration. With a glass of champagne we make a wish. How is it born, in what conditions is it made, and do we know how to drink the magical beverage? About this and much else you can learn by visiting the sparkling-wine factory in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region.

Bakhmut, the sparkling-wine factory. Dionysus with the maenads in the tasting hall

Shabo. The Centre of Wine Culture — a Song, a Fairy Tale

Some of Ukraine's wine-making estates that I have managed to visit are very worthy agrotechnical enterprises, and I greatly enjoyed the excursions to these amazing wineries. But after the incomparable excursion to the Shabo Centre of Wine Culture, I place this super-class wine-making complex first by many measures, and what I saw and remembered I will try to recount in my own words.

Shabo. The Centre of Wine Culture