Saratsky, Tarutinsky, Tatarbunarsky. The region has strengthened its position as the
leading vine growing region of Ukraine, new vineyards are being built, technically and
technologically rebuilt, build up their winery capacities, and create new business
entities. There are more than 200 enterprises of vine growing and winemaking complex
in Odessa region, most of them privately owned. The most famous are the Industrial
and Commercial Company Shabo, Odessa Champagne Wine Factory, and Odessa
Cognac Factory. In order to popularize their own products, many of them provide
tourist excursions.
National Scientific Center "V.E. Tairov Institute of Viticulture and Wine" is
located near Odessa, on the shores of Sukhoi Liman. It is the oldest scientific institution
of viticulture and winemaking in Ukraine. Its founder and initiator of creation was V.E.
Tairov, a world-famous scientist in the field of viticulture and winemaking, vice
president of the International Organization of Grapes and Wines from 1905 to 1938.
The vineyards of the institute are located right on the flat slopes of Sukhoi Liman
that descend to the water surface. The assortment of plants is based mainly on varieties
of their own breeding: Odesa Black, Sukholimansky White, Muscat Odessa, Rubin
Tayirovsky, etc. Over the centuries of its existence, the institute brought around 100
new grape varieties and developed several dozen new wine technologies. There is also
a tasting room capable of accepting up to 100 visitors at the same time and displaying
18 samples of wines (the main types of wines in the world), which are combined with
the trademark "Tairovski wines". The highlight of "Tairovsky Wines" is that they are
all made from grape varieties of the institute. The festival of winemaking "Live wine
of Ukraine" with a tasting competition that collects dozens of local producers is held
there annually in May.
Odessa Cognac Factory "Shustov", founded in 1863 in Odessa, is one of the oldest
winemaking enterprises the region. Here, for the first time in our country, cognacs were
produced according to classical French (Sharantine) technology. In 1899, the enterprise
was redeemed by one of the vodka kings of the Russian Empire N. Shustov and until
1941 high-quality cognacs were produced according to his own recipes. At the World
Exhibition in Paris in 1900, Shustov cognac got first place, thereby gaining the right to
be called "cognac".
During the war the factory was destroyed, but in 1947 the first batch of cognac
was released again. In 2002 Odessa Cognac Factory was privatized.
The factory is the leader of cognac production in Ukraine. Its trademarks include
"Shustov", "Golden Duke", "Odessa", "Desna", "Seagull", "Arcadia", "Jubilee", etc.
The 23 names of ordinary and vintage cognacs, 13 names of vodkas, 7 types of
champagne are produced there. The plant has a full production cycle, from the vineyard
to the finished cognac. Now the plant produces cognacs of 16 varieties, ranging from
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