The history of wine making on the South of Russia
Approximately at the same time the gardening
- agricultural research station was organized in Sochi. Its
aim was to select fruit cultures and vine and to grow and sell plants.
The development of vineyards and winemaking in Russia was
sufficiently affected by Barbara's college of gardening,
winegrowing and winemaking which was opened at the end of
the19th century in Tuapse. The college was named after daughter
of Maecenas K.Sibirjakov whose dream was to use the unique
God given and Nature given chance completely: to make
Black sea coast the best wine making region in the world.
It
was at the college that for the first time in Kuban vineyards were
lifted up the vine-prop. Chemical means of fighting with harmful
insects and vine diseases were started being used. New
sorts of vine and new ways of forming of vine plants were studied.
New machines for between - the - row processing were tried.
88 students studied at the college in 1903.
In
1905 the common harvest of grape on the South of Russia exceeded
21340 tons. It is important
to note that high quality European technical and eatable sorts which
provided good wine materials and wines prevailed.
Krasnodarskii krai
is the southern region of modern Russia.
Kuban
is the North - Eastern part of Krasnodarskii krai.
