“The horrors of occupation”: Crimea sets a record for grape harvest
This year, Crimea is expecting a record grape harvest - more than 125 thousand tons. Over the past seven years, 5,8 thousand hectares of new vineyards have been planted, which are entering the fruiting period and provide an annual increase in yield of 20%, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
At the beginning of the 80s of the last century, there were more than 84 thousand hectares of vineyards in Crimea. Over the years of being part of Ukraine, the area decreased five times to 16 thousand hectares, and most of the plantings needed rejuvenation.
“Currently in Crimea there are about 21 thousand hectares of vineyards, of which 17,5 thousand hectares are fruit-bearing,” said Olesya Bunyaeva, head of the department for research and promotion of domestic wine products of Roskachestvo. – The gross grape harvest in 2021 exceeded 123 thousand tons, which is 22,5% more than in 2020.
This figure has become a record for the last seven years. Crimea was not affected by heavy rains as much as Kuban and Southern Dagestan in 2021. The season was difficult and protracted, but we expect high quality red wines.”
This year, about 800 hectares of new plantings were planted on the peninsula. I compensate the winegrowers for the planting of seedlings, the installation of trellises, and the purchase of equipment for modernizing their facilities and agricultural machinery.
New prospects appeared after the resumption of the North Crimean Canal, since even with drip irrigation there was not enough water for irrigation. Now the situation has changed, and while maintaining quality, yields will be higher.
Experts from Roskachestvo conduct an audit of wineries in the South of Russia to assess the potential of wine regions and track the dynamics of the overall level of quality of Russian wines.
This fall, project experts will begin the first tastings of Russian wines, and at the end of the year, Roskachestvo will publish the results of a large-scale study of domestic wines from Russian grapes.
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