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Main building of the Sparkling Wines Factory
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Pavel Viaznikov
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The name sounds quite French (which was always good for the wine makers), but in fact that's "Five Mountain Springs" or something like that in a language of a local people (meaning that the lake is fed by those springs). This is why the lake is very cold even in the heat of a summer.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=44.6968472&lon=37.6005363&z=14&l=1&m=h&v=2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrau-Dyurso
Abrau-Dyurso or Abrau-Durso is a village (selo) under the jurisdiction of the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is located on the shore of Lake Abrau, 14 kilometers (9 mi) west of Novorossiysk. Population: 2,982 (2002 Census. Abrau-Dyurso is the center of Russia's most important wine-growing region.
The settlement was founded on November 25, 1870 as a royal winery which was to provide wine for the Tsar's household. These plans were brought to fruition twenty-one years later, when Prince Leo Galitzine, renowned for his his Crimean vineyards of Massandra and Novy Svet, was appointed Surveyor of Imperial Vineyards at Abrau-Dyurso. It was he who brought to Russia a team of skilled winemakers from France. By 1897, Abrau-Dyurso boasted champagne cellars containing in excess of 13,000 bottles.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 brought an end to Abrau-Dyurso's prosperity, if only for a short time. The French specialists fled Russia, but their work was continued by their Russian apprentices. Throughout the Soviet period, Abrau-Dyurso was reputed for its sparkling wine, which was marketed under the name of Sovetskoye Shampanskoye ("Soviet Champagne"). As of 2005, the local winery produced 5,800,000 bottles of champagne. There is a museum of sparkling wines on its grounds.
In August 2002, the local earth dam located upstream of the Dyurso River collapsed,[5] washing away some of the grape fields in the Dyurso Valley. Currently Abrau-Dyurso does not grow its own wine grapes, but imports them from other locations
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