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I remember the dusty bookstores that stocked cheap Russian classics and the bottles of sparkling Russian wine my father used to buy from visiting sailors.
They were followed by groups of Jewish and Russian wine merchants who were subsequently supplanted by Communist-era state cooperatives, which were ultimately replaced by the international collectives that control much of the production today.
REUTERS Russian Wine Maker to Push Ahead With Offering | Though Russia has not escaped the global market volatility and a large number of initial public offerings expected in the country this fall have been called off, the sparkling wine producer Abrau-Dyurso is still forging ahead with a Moscow I.P.O. that could value the firm as high as $100 million.
"This Russian wine ban has helped promote our wine elsewhere - it has helped us find new markets in Europe," he said.
At night I would drink Russian wine with them and they would drink vodka.
WINE LIST -- Short and basic, though it includes two inexpensive Russian wines.
Still, when 92-year-old Ernest Gallo, the winemaker, tried to discuss Russian wines, Mr. Chernov, a senior adviser to President Vladimir V. Putin, had to concede that there was not much to talk about.
Each year, the quantity of Georgian wines sold in the USS R exceeded the amount produced: unscrupulous traders simply slapped Georgian labels on less desirable Moldavian and Russian wines.
Spain is counting its blessings: though fruit, meat and vegetables were included in the Russian sanctions, wine and olive oil were not.
Mr. Kanygin said the Russian faked wines, principally made in vodka plants, were among the most dangerous and unregulated, because they pass no borders and, consequently, have no natural checkpoint for inspection.
