An excursion into the history of winemaking will be presented at the Crimean Military History Festival
This year, one of the novelties of the Crimean Military History Festival, which will be held from September 9 to 17 at Fedyukhin Heights (Balaklava district of Sevastopol), will be an excursion into the history of winemaking.
This was reported by the press service of the organizing committee.
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“For Crimea, making wine is one of the oldest crafts, and we decided to reveal this topic close to the peninsula through the prism of different eras.
The differences in wine production in different eras concerned not only the method of squeezing juice, but also the bottling of wines, as well as pre-extraction preparation. The Antiquity, Ancient Rus' and Middle Ages sites will feature interactive points where you can not only see how wine was made, but also take part in the process yourself.
Entering the Middle Ages, guests will see the construction of a XNUMXth-century wine press, which will be carried out by reenactors based on drawings and descriptions of the past. The use of a press made it possible to extract coloring substances from the skins of grapes, and therefore made it possible to produce not only white, but also red varieties of wine.
A primitive lever press will be presented in Ancient Rus'. It was a transitional form from the completely manual labor of antiquity to the wine presses of the developed Middle Ages. Perhaps, as part of the festival, guests will hear a lecture on winemaking in tsarist times, in particular during the Crimean War. At that time, not only local wine was available on the peninsula, but French wine was also actively supplied. During the hostilities, the French stood right on the Fedyukhin Heights, and while preparing the festival territory, they found the remains of old bottles of French wine.
Antiquity will present a more “primitive”, but very picturesque process of winemaking: barefoot beautiful girls will crush grapes with their feet, separating the juice from the cake. In ancient times, to prevent the wine from turning sour, alabaster, chalk, crushed marble, resin and aromatic herbs were added to the wort during fermentation. The prepared drink was stored and transported in wineskins and ceramic vessels. Before use, it was mixed with water in a special vessel - a krater,” the message says.
The organizers hope that they will be able to recreate the entire winemaking process and at the end of the festival season they will cork several bottles, flasks and amphorae of their own wine.
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