Factory of champagne wines Novy Svet
Champagne factory New World
Crimea, Novyi Svit
The sparkling wine factory, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1978, is located in the village of Novyi Svet.
The plant produces brut champagne (without sugar), the driest (0.8% sugar), dry (3%) and semi-dry (5%) champagne. The last two brands make up 95% of all products.
At international and domestic competitions and tastings, Novosvet champagne won five gold and ten silver medals. A considerable part of the wine is exported, mainly to Germany. The first domestic champagne is considered to be “Sudatsky champagne of 1799”, mentioned in old wine inventories. A small amount of sparkling drink was produced in Sudak by the School of Winemaking (100 buckets in 1822–1827), entrepreneur D.Ya.Largier and the Simferopol Champagne Society.
Later, in the 1930s, a certain Krich put things on a grand scale. Krich's wine was of such high quality that he sold it all over Russia under the guise of French Rederer champagne. After a French firm sued him for counterfeiting its brand, Creech was forced to liquidate his business.
The true ancestor of Russian champagne winemaking is L.S. Golitsyn. Here, in the New World, he bought an estate, built a road there, built a winery, cellars, a house for employees, and began experiments on making champagne. After ten years of hard work, champagne was released under the name "Paradise", and then under the brand name "New World". Especially successful was the release of 1899 (60 thousand bottles), which received the highest award at the world tasting in France - the Grand Prix. Winemaker A.A. Ivanov, a colleague of Golitsyn, wrote in his memoirs that in 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris a dinner was given in honor of the chairman of the expert commission - Count Chandon, the owner of a well-known champagne company. At dinner, the best award-winning drinks were served. The count, much to his embarrassment, took Golitsyn's champagne for his own. It was a triumph of Russian winemaking.
True, having fulfilled his patriotic duty, Golitsyn went bankrupt. The arrangement of wine cellars in Mount Koba-Kaya and other works cost him his entire fortune. In 1905, the last small bottling of champagne was made, and the next year the cellars were sealed for debts to creditors. Golitsin died in 1916 and was buried in Novy Svet.
