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”...
