The guests are offered an interesting excursion, tasting of high-quality vintage,
dessert, and seasoned wines and national cuisine.
Winery complex Chizay (JS Iceberg) was founded in 1995 in the city of Berehove,
Transcarpathian region, in the picturesque tract of Chizay. It is a modern industrial
complex with a full cycle of production, which includes its own vineyards, a primary
winemaking factory (where grape processing and winemaking takes place), secondary
winemaking factory (where wine is bottled and prepared for bottling), wine storage
facilities, tasting rooms, office and warehouses. Finished products are produced under
several registered brands (Chizay, Chateau Chizay, Limited Edition, Wine Berry) with
a well-deserved demand both in Ukraine and in the USA, Israel, EU countries,
Australia, Nigeria. In order to promote grape wines and improve the culture of wine
consumption, a tasting room with a total area of 90 square meters,which accommodates
up to 50 guests at the same time,was opened on the territory of the Chizay winemaking
complex in September 2010. Two years later, the Museum of Viticulture and Wine
Industry opened its doors [8].
The Chizay Valley Wine Tour offers to explore the Chateau Chizay vineyards in
Malaya Gora, a tour of Chateau Chizay winemaking complex with a visit to the storage
facility; tasting of 10 types of wines, visiting the Museum of Viticulture and Wine, as
well as the Chateau Chizay brand store [7].
The traditional winemaking region offers a unique tourist product, the
Transcarpathian wine route. Developers of the Transcarpathian wine route are the
Association of private vine growers and winemakers of Transcarpathia and the
Department of Tourism of Uzhgorod National University. The program includes
excursions to private farms, where one can taste the original wines and try the true
Transcarpathian Bohrach directly on the hills among the grape plantations, an overview
of the historical monuments of winemaking and viticulture, containing numerous
legends and artifacts, lodging in country homesteads, participation in a picturesque and
vivid celebration of harvesting grapes as well as various tastings in about 50 tasting
halls of family wineries, particularly, the Wine House "Berehvidek" in the village of
Yanoshi, O. Kovach tasting room "Chardonnay" in Uzhgorod, wine hall "Old
Basement" in Berehove, etc.
In recent years, numerous wine festivals have been launched and conducted in the
Transcarpathian region: "Red wine" (Mukacheve, January), "White Wine" (Berehove,
April), "Sunny Drink" (Berehove, May), the new wine festival "Transcarpathian
Beaujolais" (Uzhhorod, October), the "Ugochaiska Vine" festival (Vinogradov, June).
Over 100 thousand tourists from all over Ukraine annually participate in these festivals.
Viticulture and winemaking in Odessa region are developed in 12 administrative
districts:
Artsyzsky,
Bilgorod-Dnistrovsky,
Bilyayevsky,
Bolgradsky,
Velikomyhaylovsky, Izmailsky, Kiliysky, Ovidiopolsky, Rozdilnyansky, Renziy,
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