Fully committed and determined is perhaps understating it when it comes to the winemakers of Ukraine. Familiar grape names plus new varieties and styles.
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Kvass
Kvass is a lightly alcoholic beer made from fermenting black rye bread. Goldstein explains kvass ranks second only to vodka as a popular libation, adding, in a unique 19th-century religious sect, it outranked even vodka. The believers were known as
kvasniki since they eschewed all drinks except kvass. Kvass is a lightly alcoholic beer made from fermenting black rye bread. | Katrina Frederick
Originally brewed in monasteries and predating vodka, this drink came to be sold in the Soviet streets by the truckload, doled out to masses of thirsty proletariat workers.
In an unlikely departure from most libations, kvass can also be used as a soup base. Called
France vows to defend Champagne after Russia steals the name
RFI
07 Jul 2021, 07:16 GMT+10
France s foreign minister has weighed-in behind French champagne growers who say they ve been robbed of their heritage after a Russian law ordered non-Russian producers to label their bottles as sparkling wine. Champagne is a sparkling wine from the region of the same name, north east of Paris and thanks to the AOC - Appellation of Controlled Origin - it cannot be produced elsewhere.
The AOC is meant to give champagne producers exclusive use of the word in countries that have signed up to the Lisbon agreement on distinctive geographical locations.