The five-day package tour "Wines of Crimea" with a visit to the most famous Crimean wineries has already appeared in the assortment portfolio of the tour operator "Intourist". Wine tours to Crimea are available for booking with departure from 10 Russian cities. Cost 5-day tour starts from 28 thousand rubles per person with airfare, hotel accommodation, meals and an excursion program with tastings.
As the company told the TRN portal, in connection with the growing popularity of wine and gastronomic travel, the development of "wine roads" routes, as well as many years of positive experience in selling similar tours in foreign destinations, the tour operator "Intourist" launched a new excursion package tour "Wines of Crimea". Wine tours are designed with departures from such cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Mineralnye Vody, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Novosibirsk.
As part of the five-day tour, guests will be able to see the iconic sights of Sevastopol, Inkerman, Balaklava, Foros, Yalta, Sudak and Novy Svet, visit five famous wineries of the peninsula as part of one tour and taste their products.
The fertile land of the Crimean peninsula is ideal for growing numerous hectares of international and unique local grape varieties. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the star of industrial Crimean winemaking rose in the Russian Empire. Crimean wines were delivered to the court of the Russian emperor and were already known and recognized abroad. A hundred years later, Crimean winemaking is experiencing a rebirth. Vineyards are being revived on the peninsula, wineries equipped with the latest technology are opening, and Crimean farms are producing new wines that meet the highest world standards.
The principles of wine tourism are simple: try wines only in the places of their production, in order to connect in your memory and imagination the bouquet and taste of the drink with the secret of its origin in nature, history and spirit of the area. This tour will introduce guests of the peninsula to the history of winemaking in Crimea, allow you to enjoy magnificent Crimean wines and buy the best and rare collectible examples of wine products in the company stores of enterprises.
Over the course of 5 days, the tour participants will visit the Alma Valley winery in the Alma Valley, see the main attractions of Sevastopol, inspect the cave monastery of St. Clement and visit the wine cellars of the Inkerman House of Classic Wines, after which they will go to Balaklava and combine walks along the embankment of Balaklava Bay and a tour of the Genoese fortress of Chembolo, the Church of the Twelve Apostles and the famous Listrygon Bay with a visit to the TerruArt champagne house of the Zolotaya Balka winery. Then the tour participants will visit the southern coast of Crimea, where they will see the Foros Church, the Livadia Palace, walk along the embankment of Yalta and take a tour of the cellars of the famous Massandra winery, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.
The last day of the tour will be dedicated to the New World. After visiting the Sudak Fortress, the group will go to the New World Champagne House, founded by Prince L. S. Golitsyn more than a century ago.
A visit to each of the enterprises will be accompanied by a fascinating tour of the wine cellars with a tasting of the best samples of wine from the collections of the enterprises.
"Wine tours are a reason to visit Crimea in the off-season and combine acquaintance with the palaces and monuments of Crimea with tastings at the best farms of the peninsula without haste and sweltering heat. The route is planned in such a way that it allows you to see five famous Crimean wineries from ultra-modern to historical in one tour. The cost of accommodation in hotels and flights in the autumn-winter season is traditionally reduced, which makes such tours accessible to a wide audience," he noted. Executive Director of the tour operator Intourist Sergey Tolchin.
Source: trn-news.ru