The main sorts of grapes which are being grown on Kuban for wine production.
Nowadays more than 200 sorts of grapes are being grown
in Kuban region. The most popular sorts are:
Cabernet. It
is the best - known black grape. This sort became popular due to
the wines produced in French Province Bordeaux. It is being grown
now everywhere including Kuban. It is undoubtably the number one
sort. It is interesting that the juice of the grapes from this sort
are colourless, that is why it is possible to make white wine from
sort too. Colourless and slightly pink high quality champagne wine
materials are produced here with the help of quick pressing Cabernet
- Sovinjon grapes. They are being added into combination of other
grapes (their percentage is 10 - 20) to improve champagne. The
best Kuban wines of this sort are not worse than the French ones.
They are distinguished by their noble, tender taste and exclusively
refined bouquet.
Shardone. Shardone is considered to be
the best sort of grapes in France from which they produce white
Burgundia wines together with 2 sorts of black grapes and shapmain.
Shardone is known number 1 white sort. Nevertheless in Russia it
wasn't well spread, for Shardone harvest here is not so high. But
it is impossible to ignore it where the quality is valued and not
the amount. It is being grown and used in Krasnodarskii krai
for producing high quality champagne wine materials. The climate
conditions of Abrau-Durso make it possible to get wine materials
which surpass the quality of the analogical ones in the Province
Champagne itself.
Krasnodarskii krai
is the southern region of modern Russia.
Kuban
is the North - Eastern part of Krasnodarskii krai.
