From Russia with wine

Lefkadia Valley winery in Krasnodar, Russia

28 January 2021 Wine lovers will be intrigued by how big a part new vineyards and luxurious wineries play in Alexei Navalny's famous film about 'Putin's palace' on the Black Sea coast.

26 January 2021 With Russia very much in the news, Moscow-based Tatiana Zhemaytis, who recently passed the WSET Level 3 in Wines, reports on the progress of wine there. She also includes some Moscow restaurant recommendations.

The great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote:

Of Veuve Clicquot or Moët
Some blessed and fine dry white wine
In icy bottle for the poet
Sometimes is brought at the right time.

If Pushkin were still alive he would write even more poems about wine because today...