Nov 25, 2010 | Features, Russian Wine Regions, Russian Wineries
Passport Magazine October 2006 Text and photos by Charles W. Borden Two months have passed since Russia’s wine crisis began, and supermarket Sedmoi Kontinent still has only a handful of wines. The bureaucrats have crippled Russia’s wine industry and it is difficult to...
Nov 25, 2010 | Features, Russian Wine Business
(Passport Magazine August 2006) by Charles W. Borden It’s July 7, seven days after the new Russian alcohol tax stamp regime took effect, and the shelves are bare. With the deadline for the monthly Passport wine tasting just days away, I took a tour of the wine...
Nov 23, 2010 | Features, Georgian Wines
Passport Magazine March 2006 by Charles W. Borden It was only a matter of time before we would get to the wines of Georgia, considered by many to be the best of countries of the USSR. There is some basis for this claim, and not only because Georgia-born Stalin...
Nov 23, 2010 | Russian Wineries
Passport Magazine May 2005 by Charles W. Borden “I can’t believe this is Russian wine,” was a phrase we heard many times from the Passport wine panel during the tasting of Russian wines from Chateau le Grand Vostock, located in the South of Russia, close to the resort...
Nov 22, 2010 | Russian Wine Regions
The wine grape growing regions of Russia are located in the south between the Black and Caspian Seas. See the following pages for information about the regions where authentic Russian wines are produced: Krasnodar region Stavropol region Rostov region...
Jul 1, 2010 | Imported Wines
Passport Magazine July 2010 Text by Charles W. Borden, photos by Maria Savelieva Antinori is one of the oldest and best-known names in Italian wines with more than 600 years of grapes in the family tree. Based in Florence, Antinori is not just a big wine-maker, but it...
