Jan 3, 2011 | Features, Russian Wineries, Sparkling Wines
Passport Magazine January 2011 Text:Charles Borden, Photos: Charles Borden and courtesy of Abrau Durso The sharp pop from a bottle of Shampanskoye echoes across every almost every home, restaurant and park in Russia at midnight on New Year’s eve, followed by a fizzy...
Dec 2, 2010 | Russian Wine Business, Russian Wine Regions, Russian Wineries, Sparkling Wines, Wine Shopping
Passport Magazine, December 2010 Text by Charles Borden This time of year I often get asked about wines for a company party, for a unique gift to take home for the holidays, or a Moscow New Year’s present for the boss. Here is my comprehensive 2011 Moscow Holiday Wine...
Nov 25, 2010 | Features, History, Sparkling Wines, Ukraine, Ukrainian Wines
Passport Magazine, November 2009 Text by Charles Borden Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire by the nineteenth century, and later became a founding republic of the Soviet Union. Ukraine has a long coastline along the northern Black Sea and western Azov Sea where...
Nov 25, 2010 | Russian Wineries, Sparkling Wines, Ukraine, Ukrainian Wines
Passport Magazine October 2007 Text by Charles W. Borden This month’s wine tasting, one of our most interesting, started with a comment from John Ortega about a deprecatory Moscow Times article about Soviet ‘Champagnes’. I responded that “the Soviet Shampnskoye”...