gets the. point. that there was a man named brown would come to russia's black sea coast to grow grapes and. he might not have been my ancestor the namesake in the region. excuse for a visit. one bottle of the family wine if there was another one i was going to find. if i had to have a few of the local vintage is a way that was a sacrifice i was willing to make. this is a venerable institution in russia's wine industry the miss haka has been running almost continuously for nearly one hundred and fifty years and culture. is in charge of making sure it's still one of the country's top to.

most to me. what can you tell us all about you well this is one of the first places in the region and in russia as a whole off to the crimea of course when the first videos were set up. miss halcombe been you know it's a joint almost mediterranean climate protected by mountains close to the sea and with winds that blow in from the step to keep the temperature balanced it's been a recipe for great great for over one hundred fifty years and some of the workers have seen quite a few vintages come and go. how long have you worked here what about. the future i've been working here since one thousand nine hundred eighty five when i first came to the vineyard. and i still work here. i really like this job so i've never worked in any other place i began after

finishing seventh grade i got married here too. this is definitely a job that inspires loyalty. isn't the only person who returns for the harvest year after year but there's always room for a new workers. thank you mr with this one ok so you have to pay attention to the following small branches like this one we don't need the small ones just the big ones don't touch the little ones otherwise the one will be poor quality. grasp it with your hand and cut it off like that but the great because job doesn't end when his pocket is full. james i'd like to draw your attention to the fact that the great gathering involves not just gathering but you also have to put the grapes into this container very carefully and sort through them see there's a leaf there ok they have to be taken in. each of these crates weighs between two

hundred fifty and three hundred kilos so getting them to the factory takes some good team work. grapes. time to load it up. the way. i. write.

is the second stage. this is a lot more than just rows of dusty bottles it's actually the best stuff in the winery the ground that's been sitting here for at least

a year to develop its flavor much of which it gets from these these wonderful huge heavy oak barrels. which could all the different notes and flavors to the wife and parrot me if you press your ear to hear long enough yet to hear the occasional. we may twig grapes were ripening you kiss was sweet like red one. knew the mood to be. the. last for ever.

most wine companies in the crescent all reason might be trying to up production but there are some that still think that small is beautiful i'm off to meet the king of russia so cool garridge wines and i've heard that this is some pretty high level. you know your pattern is the man behind me gordon yeah he used to be an important exporter of wine and he's visited vineyards all over the world but seeing other people cultivate their own brands wasn't enough he wanted his own. two thousand and five we bought a cross of learned and in two thousand and six planted the first great plains which brought their first harvest in two thousand and nine. in two thousand and ten we took second place at the new zealand one competition from the industry developed

rapidly the wine was in high demand among our guests and we doubled the size of the harvest in about. fourteen hector's an area we mostly grow companies and serve in your blog and a little malone a little. bit early how many containers other three taken of the three and be done with. the most coming and will stop processing ok in carriage wine quality is everything and he has to micromanage the process everything is handmade from beginning to end strictly this is a home brew but can anyone actually do it well if you've got the right fruit anything's possible. and these plastic bins where my beautiful grapes end up. this is where the fermentation process takes place as you can see it's completely

low tech but the grapes sit here for several weeks and. really come along and give them a good stir four or five times a day. so once the grapes become it's a sign that they're ready to be pressed so now the worst happens we can get the first crest of the wind going in here. probably it's best not to wear white when doing this to be honest. is completely. traditional method. so all beautiful to use here. is through this hose and into. you. get to in time

this. great big steel container and it sits here for about three weeks and it's ready for the next stage of the question. and the right barrel is all important in the wine making process because if you have good quality oak it lets the wind green and imparts all sorts of interesting notes so. new batch is going to sit in here. months. and hopefully it will turn out to be rather than this. fermentation of red wine which we've already processed and mix is about to finish it's been fermenting for a whole two weeks now. and then we're going to fill these barrels with the very first batch. to alter the wines been sitting

and it's barrel for several months comes the great season is it ready to be bottles and this. is all down to the one make his personal choice and i see. that's pretty good. you know we don't filter our wine we bottle it directly from the barrels. or the bottle break no we're not going to put your foot here to keep it in place. yeah that's right james brown been to twenty thirty in it's going to be invaluable in a few years that. your news maybe this been to will be another international award winner tied to his collection. but one thing's for sure there's no brown family

both lin his son i was going to have to keep looking. but let me just tell you something right now president george w. bush never claimed the right to extradition really assassinate american citizens this president barack obama should be impeached for crimes against the citizens and against the constitution because he has killed women and children in drone strikes so i just like to say that i think that history is not going to judge the presidency of barack obama and george bush in the same light whatsoever i think obama is way worse than bush and i am not a big fan of george w. bush ok and you could probably be co-hosting this program i guess i don't need to say very much definitely give you reflective on what we've heard from good will be and for a monster america there is no compare and contrast between either president whatsoever

besides having a spending problem this president currently has spanned and pulling the debt and deficits out of control more than all presidents combined however george w. bush did spend too much but his governing style foreign policy prowess taking a set of crisis and leadership style or night and day over what president obama's are. right on the scene. first struck you and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. the in the. moment. ah. the olympic torch is on its epic journey to such

a. one hundred twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by georgians awesome people for sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and outer space. a limpet torch relay. on r t r two dot com. my first interest here when i came across. for my first question. what are you doing the. russian wine has been enjoying a resurgence in recent years thanks in no small part to european technology but

it's not only machines that are being imported from the continent. born in the heart of france's wine country has a lifetime of experience in the business after projects all round the world he's made his way east to russia although he's found a winery with a familiar name. he's in charge of the ground for stock brown which boasts its grapes of the equal of any in bordeaux and felipe is gearing up for his first harvest. for follies a. little dream because my. side was born in crime. and when i was young people are. every time i hear. and after a long. and

united states i disabled i disabled work in ratio and. i proposition for. in one week. this job. it's just simple story. but heavy rain and strong winds are causing significant problems. with the harvest already behind show jule has to make sure the process runs smoothly the weather hasn't been kind and he needs to check the quality of the grapes that are coming in and exactly how long it's going to take the longer the fruit stays on the vine the riper it becomes which can significantly affect the taste judging the moment of perfect rightness is one of the most crucial decisions

in wine making. good the. people. tell us please what are you going to finish if it doesn't start raining. into our. report on and then let's call it a day. like you've never heard of the brown family winery in this region have you it's all know what. our legs a stick. i have a good on that. one

but you. will receive the grades yes you see. this is my last why. don't you go to it just because he just called you go. to break so. you need to distinguish. between. if i decide as a seaman. just. you know who. do you like. in the press. when's the press the food we stop suppressing and we take the juice. and we still consider juice in detention. but what i will get for the city mentation i. was. happy.

to chas and friends and we keep the wine and those uptown for example of disarms the film until it's. not real finished but if you fold to this stuff this is my first song so beale well ok don't you want to just be just a little be true or a. yes yes. so this is it. this is all to help how much time. flows a moment to eighteen eighteen days and i think finish next week afterwards when t twenty. the twenty two days.

with the. vehicle so for this to. be so simple why i don't. it's a planned. and cross will stop. a . blended typical boulder blend of mellow and but we have a good value to christmas so we meet is value to you because you were what did it feel to you and. although bland at the russians. fate like the horizon his suppurating from each other i don't know if i'll ever see the can. i have is this last bottle we made it sound. i will keep it until you return. i decided i've been thinking too much in my attempts to find my bottles twin so we're going to take

a trip back in time this is supposed to be home to one of the largest collections of soviet wine in the reason. maybe i'll have a bit of better luck. it seems the wine was popular if expensive throughout the soviet union by the one nine hundred seventy s. this factory alone was producing more than two million bottles see here. this isn't just the oldest wine cellar in the region it's also one of the largest each one of these titles is the length of almost three football fields and if you were so inclined you could drink a liter of wine a day for each of these barrels and it would take seven it's finished. this one contains eighty two thousand bottles of about two hundred fifty six of the

best sorts of wines from all wine making regions of the former soviet union and here we have wines from georgia and russia namely from dawn and the stuff. but could i find a brown family bottle tucked away in this collection. even in all these thousands i still wasn't having any success. my personal quest wasn't going all that well but i was getting a crash course in the history of wine in this region greek settlers brought the technology to the black sea coast more than two thousand years ago and one of the descendants is still following the traditions to this day. it is a little business buzz tell us about your technology please.

difficult business. is fine. that's how we would crush bunches of grapes until recently but it hasn't been long since electric powered wine press disappeared. after of the revolution of one nine hundred seventeen people became obsessed with globalization and production growth. and drinking culture fell victim to the changes. controlling the harvest rate is important we do it as well you have to set limits to the output volume if you're expanding it more and more it's easy to lose control then you'll have to use preservation agents and conservatives to put it simply it's murder they kill wine we take specially selected grapes no rotten months but we don't throw away grapes of lower

quality we use them to make paths of wine and east. well might not have found the second bottle but there have been plenty of unexpected benefits from my trip to the greek stress or even the odd scuse me of. wine making is a very personal business everyone has different aims different tastes and a different clientele they're trying to reach choosing the correct moments of bottle can be the difference between success and failure and that often comes down

to one man's opinion guessing you're right it seems is never a perfect science so we've been asking the. question again for one thing. do you think the secret is. a perfect one. some regions that's my secret some good by. the more important for make good wine. make good grades for a good while you make a real good to. see that's the secret after all if you have a real good gripes. in the city you can make so good why but if you don't have discrimination it's impossible. better than you have to care for your video to the video grapes should be wholesome

i would really rather but luckily the climate here is favorable you should control the fermentation process. clean the cellar and then store instead of bottles probably with just my secret with you sure the days nothing special about it that it was. you know that i do good the surname brown in this region i'm looking for a second bottle. in use but i can't answer your question well if you search hard enough you never know what you might find. if you let it. it seems who never meet again in this life wine has never tasted the same to me since our bottle still sits in my cellar. perhaps one day it will find its way home.

one could. you know there's one thing that i still can't understand and i don't want to good mood but i have this one question with. everything. that you give them all up. to go your way but what for.

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