The factory of champagne wines "Novy Svet"

Sudak champagne of 1799 is considered the first native champagne mentioned in old wine inventories. Not great amount of sparkling wine was produced in Sudak college of wine-making (100 buckets in 1822-1827), the owner D.Ya.Largie and "Simferopol champagne society". Later in the 30-es one Krich made business in grand style. Krich's wine was of so high quality that he was selling it through all Russia as though it were French champagne "Rederer". When the French firm brought a suite against him about wine falsification Krich was forced to liquidate his business.

The real fore-father of Russian champagne-making is L.S.Golitsin. He bought an estate in Novy Svet, lead the road there, built the wine-making institution, cellars, the house for the employees and started the experiments on champagne making. After the persistent 10-year work there was produced champagne "Paradise" and then "Novy Svet". The output of 1899 was especially succesful (60 thousand bottles), it got the highest grant - "Grand Prize" on international wine tasting in France.

The wine-maker A.A.Ivanov, Golitsin's companion, wrote in his rememberings that in 1900 on the international exhibition in Paris the dinner was done in honour of the expert commission chairman - the count Shandon, the owner of the known champagne firm. At the dinner the best drinks which got the grant were served. To his considerable embarrassimg position the count took Golitsin's champagne for his own. It was the triumph of Russian wine-making. The arrangement of wine cellars an the mountain Koba-Kaya and other works costed him all his property. In 1905 the last small champagne bottling was done, next year the cellars were sealed by creditors for debts. Golitsin died in 1916 and was buried in Novy Svet.