Madera Massandra - vintage white strong wine . The only manufacturer - GK NPAO "Massandra" in the Crimea [1] .
Content
History
Wine has been produced since 1892 . It is made from grape varieties Albillo, Verdelho (Verdelho) and Sersial (Sercial), growing mainly on slate soils. Use grapes, the sugar content of which reaches 20%.
A feature of the manufacturing technology is the use of the process of maderization, which in this case consists in aging the wine for 5 years in oak bottles on a special mader site under the open sun. Due to this feature, the Crimean Madera is called “twice born by the sun”. In the process of making wine loses 40% of its volume.
Wine characteristics: alcohol - 19.5%, sugar - 3 g / 100 cu. cm, titratable acids - 4-6 g / cc. dm The color is golden. Bouquet with hints of hardened walnut. The term of exposure is 5 years [2] [3] .
Awards
At international competitions, the wine was awarded 10 gold and 5 silver medals. Among them are awards at the competitions " Brussels " (1958), " Hungary " (1958 and 1960), "Crimea-Wine 95", the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR (silver medal) [4] and others [1] [5] [ 6] .
See also
- Madeira
- Port wine
- Sherry
- Sherry Massandra
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 “Madera Massandra” on the official website of the Massandra Group of (Not available link) . The appeal date is April 8, 2012. Archived July 8, 2012.
- ↑ V.M. Bereziuk, V.V. Mityaev. Solar Massandra. - Massandra: Grif Fund, 1996. - p. 172. - 414 p. - ISBN 5-85867-105-5
- ↑ "Madera Massandra" on the website "Wines of Crimea"
- Мад "Madera Massandra" (Inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is January 31, 2013. Archived April 13, 2012.
- ↑ Vlasenko S.M., Schleiger B.L. Massandra. Vintage wines. Guide. - Yalta: SPD FL Volodchenko L.P., 2008. - P. 11. - 43 sec.
- ↑ Precious necklace of the Crimean winemaking
Literature
- Krasnyuk P.I., Melnikov A.I., Dobrovolsky P.M., Luchitskaya E.N., Okhremenko M.S. Ukrainian grape wines and cognacs. - Kiev: Vneshtorgizdat, 1961. - 170 p.
- Berezuk V.M., Mityaev V.V. Solar Massandra. - Massandra: Grif Fund, 1996. - p. 172. - 414 p. - ISBN 5-85867-105-5 .
- R. Akchurin, E. Scholz-Kulikov, N. Pavlenko, V. Kostyukevich, A. Yalanetsky Atlas of the Crimean wines and brandies. - Simferopol: ChernomorPress, 2003. - 320 p. - ISBN 5-89501-046-6 , ISBN 966-572-366-9 .
- Yazychev V.T. Vintage wines. Guide. - Yalta, 2003.
- Crimean winemaking (guide). - Simferopol: Svit, 2006. - p. 20. - 40 p.
- Vlasenko S.M., Schleiger B.L. Massandra. Vintage wines. Guide. - Yalta: SPD FL Volodchenko L.P., 2008. - P. 11. - 43 p.