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Which directly reflects the quality of the wine drinking public. I like the French approach better: educate your customers' tastes. In Russia they also drink sw
by petre 4y ago
Which directly reflects the quality of the wine drinking public. I like the French approach better: educate your customers' tastes. In Russia they also drink sweet wines because most people there view wine as a juice that one puts in their vodka. The rich substitute the wine with very expensive champagne.
- 331c8c71 4y ago> drink sweet wines because most people there view wine as a juice that one puts in their vodka. I haven't seen anyone mixing wine and vodka there, it's just not a thing.
- vkazanov 4y agoHm. Russia and Balkans and the austro-hungarian region preferring sweeter wines is a centuries old culture and a wine making tradition. The same goes for Georgian wines. Vodka with wine... is that even a joke?
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoThe Russian preference for sweet wine might be due to Stalin, actually: > The production of Soviet champagne prioritized quantity over quality. Grape growers uprooted acres of indigenous vines from Moldova to Tajikistan and replaced them with durable, high-yield varieties that catered to Stalin’s sweet tooth. > The result was Sovetskoye Shampanskoye, a cheap, syrup-sweet sparkling wine for the ordinary Soviet worker. https://www.singaporewinevault.com/busting-the-myths-around-russian-wines/ https://www.singaporewinevault.com/busting-the-myths-around-...