it is one of russia's top tourist destinations sung see and the best one in the country has to offer but if those weren't good enough reasons on their own to come here there's also a little mystery that i want to get to the bottom of. i'd heard. that there was a man named brown who come to russia's black sea coast to grow grapes and. he might not have been my ancestor the namesake in the region seen in the past picked excuse for a visit. one bottle of the family wine if there was another one i was going to find it and if i had to have a few of the local vintages along the way that was a sacrifice i was willing to make. this is a venerable institution in russia's wine industry the mishap has been running almost

continuously for nearly one hundred and fifty years and. is in charge of making sure it's still one of the country's top. nice to me. but can you tell us all about your feelings well this is one of the first places in the region and in russia as a whole after the crimea of course when the first video it was set up. to miss halcombe when you know it's a joint almost mediterranean climate protected by mountains close to the sea and with the flow 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 to. 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 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. the little ones otherwise the one will be poor quality. carefully does it grasp it with your hand and cut it off like that but the great because job doesn't end when his bucket 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. take some good team work. grapes. loaded up the factory. the way. i.

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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 give all the different notes and flavors to the wine and parrot me if you pressure it here long enough yet to hear the occasional. we may twig grapes were ripe and your kids were sweet like red one. moved

to the. moon last forever. most one 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. 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. fourteen as an area we mostly grow companies and serve in your blog and a little more alone 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 several weeks and we do 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 crest 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 person. or 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 delicious. 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 in its barrel for several months comes the great season is it ready to be bottled 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 if 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 it's going to be invaluable in a few years that. knows 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 bottle in his cell and i was going to have to keep looking. and. little.

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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. from these are. the little dream because in my. business side i was born in a new crime. and when i was young people or. every time i hear. and after a long. and

united states i disabled i decided. work in ratio and. proposition for russia and in one week. job. it's just simple story. but heavy rain and strong winds are causing significant problems. with the harvest already behind show jules felipe 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. but you've never heard of the brown family winery in this region have you know what. existing. a have a get on that. one but you. will receive the grades you see it. this is my last

why. do you want to discuss it ok i'll just go. to break so i. need to distinguish. between. this if i can decide as a team and you. just. you know. you like to. be depressed. when suppress the food we stop to receive and we take the juice. and we still consider juice in detention. but what i will get for city mentation i. was. happy. to chas and friends and we keep the wind. and some poor disarms

the seventy. knots real finish but if you fall to test this is my first stone so be old well ok i don't want to just be just a little bit true or a. yes just. so this is it. this is all to help how much time. eighteen eighteen days and i think finish next week afterwards when t twenty. g. twenty two days. this is. the book the.

cubicle so if this is a base why are we so i don't. it's a bland. uncross will stop. a. blended typical bubble blend of mellow and but we have a good value to christmas so we meet is value to you because you were what did you feel to you and. although bland at the russian space. fate like the horizon his suppurating from each other i don't know if i'll ever see the can. only 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 tunnels is the length of almost thirty 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 seventy years to finish. 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 mainly from dawn region. 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 has appeared. 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 i'm i'm not a fan the second bottle but there have been plenty of unexpected benefits from my trip to the greek stress or even the odd excuse me of. the. one making is a very personal business everyone has different aims different tastes and a differently intel 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 one thing. you think the secret isn't. a perfect one. sorry that's my secret it's a good buy. the more important for make a wider good wine. make a good for a good way make sure it's 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 disco it's impossible. better than you have to care for your video to the video grapes should be wholesome

it would really love it 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 me sure the bed is nothing special about it it was. you know that i do good the surname brown in this region i'm looking for a second bottle. for 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 bortle still sits in a cellar. perhaps one day it will find its way home.

one could. when the crisis leaves us traces everywhere. empty clothes rooms become the norm. children pay for the mistakes of adults. by working in a tobacco field or in a cafe. they are the ones who come back home last.

so his games are just in their memories. you know there's one thing that i still come to understand i said i don't want to ruin your good mood but i have this one question would do it is so for you that you had everything they respect and so that you give them all up in the senate to go your way but what for. it was a wait and for him he tried to restrain himself but look it all burst out anyway. if it really puts me off that i have such a father. it was one small but very

great secret that i have to live with in. the face. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. this is the place that has been consecrated to god for almost a thousand of years people came here twenty some years ago to reestablish the last

a life on the silence. and people feel the love of christ all working. people say you can catch. something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the beloved saves them. join me james brown on a journey for the soul. only. torch is on its journey to structure. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred two cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air. space.

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