Winemaking in Crimea has existed for over two thousand years.
Winemaking has been developed in Hersonissos, the Bosporan kingdom, in the Principality of Theodoro and the Genoese colonies.
Ottoman period was unfavorable to wine because of religious prohibitions on the use of wine, but that was offset by the cult of table grapes (you can call this period raisin). Although winemakers Muslims and punish sticks for the production of the drink, but Muslims are not subject to exorbitant taxes, which stimulated some move to another faith.
The period of the Russian Empire and the RSFSR and USSR came true flowering of the industry and the emergence of the science of wine production. Adoption of April 24, 1914 "Law on grape wine" helped to increase the vulnerability of the industry at the legislative level. Substantial damage to the Crimean and the Soviet winemaking was the adoption of the decision of 25 May 1985 "On combating drunkenness and alcoholism." It was during this period that the destruction of many vineyards and wineries in the conversion of the extract plants.
But the greatest reduction of the areas of vineyards and reducing the volume of production of wine in the Crimea occurred after the collapse of the USSR.
The current stage of development of viticulture and winemaking in the Crimea is associated with the reorientation of producers from the market of Ukraine to the Russian market, and is characterized by a painful process of adaptation to the conditions of the regulatory framework Russia.
In general, using protectionist mechanisms, the industry has chances for development and access to foreign markets (especially APR).
At the present stage several Crimean wine producers are world famous. This association and the enterprise: "Massandra", "Inkerman", "Sun Valley", "Gold beam", "Koktebel", "Magarach", "Suter", "New World," "Legend of Crimea".