The history of winemaking in Taman

Culture of winemaking came to Taman the ancient Greeks. Brought from Greece vine residents crossed with local varieties, and have become ubiquitous grow a new "home" amber berry, big and sweet. Circassians inhabiting Kuban much later, the wine did not. As written by witnesses, the vine is growing wild, and local tribes used as meat imported black grapes and imported dried figs. Prefers to become tipsy from Bosa - broth peeled millet. When in the late XVIII century moved to the Kuban Black Sea, they found on the Taman Peninsula fruiting vines, planted by man. Orchards and vineyards left here Turks - their

predecessors. In Taman as of 1793 there were 82 gardens in which the Turks were built 17 wells, and grows in a total of 11 thousand 200 fruit trees. Among these gardens were those in which there were between 1 and 50 trees, dozens of gardens grew to 200-300 seedlings, and the largest garden of five acres of land was planted with six hundred trees. Seventy-gardens, almost all were vineyards. Turkish heritage require regular maintenance and careful hands of a new owner, the Cossack, who, in truth, was more familiar then hold a gun, rather than a shovel. Assuring the conservation of vineyards ataman Black Sea Cossack Host Zachary Chepega gave in November 1793 injunction Colonel Ivan Kulik guard vine plantings and bury in the ground for the winter, so as not destroyed by frost. "... In the inability of those times, warm weather and the frozen lands of frequent Chill - wrote in the response report Kulik, - means (on the vine shelter - approx. Aut.) Is not going to ..." but "... from emptying properly guard chinitsya ... "- reported to Colonel in the next report. Zachary himself Chepega six Turkish gardens took personal property and fed them, hiring for civilian workers. Disposing of Turkish heritage, military brass is not denied a request to borrow neighbors seedlings with Taman garden. Thus, in 1794, Anapa Mustafa Pasha, with arrival in Taman for, "asked permission" to give him from the local garden fruit trees of different varieties. The request does not Mustafa refused, and gifts from the Taman topsoil went to take root in the land of Anapa. Later Turkish orchards and vineyards were given the Cossacks, which have since become to care for them, continuing the age-old lesson in Taman - viticulture and winemaking. With the acquisition of skills farming Cossacks themselves began to lay the orchards and vineyards to Taman ground. By the middle of XIX century liquor monopoly capital earned his considerable Pospolitaki brothers, one of whom, John Lukic, lived in Temryuk and was very friendly with the prince in the notorious Czarist Russia kind Vorontsov. In 1848, Ivan Pospolitaki, or rather its salaried workers, laid under two Germans gardeners Golubitsky farm garden. Twelve acres of land were planted with pospolitakovskoy fruit trees and grape seedlings of high quality, brought from the Crimea. Volleys of the Crimean War in 1855, the theater of military operations which took place in the Taman Peninsula in the truest sense of the word "boomed" and in this blessed corner of the man-made nature. British ships, firing into the coast, left in the garden of Ivan Pospolitaki memory of himself - six unexploded bombs. After the war, the workers decided to open one of the bombs to get gunpowder and not come up with anything else how to beat it with a hammer. The bomb exploded, killing one worker and destroyed a greenhouse garden. He himself survived the garden of the owner for many years. At the beginning of XX century old and feral witness of the events of local history was the subject of lengthy litigation between the farmhouse and the new owner of the company VS Sherbini, all of which lay claim to the garden plot. A plantation, meanwhile, were drying and dying. In 1860, the village was renamed Temryuk seaport Temryuk. In August this year, the citizens began to distribute space under construction and for gardens. Set aside land for gardens ranging in size from 2 to 4 acres and with the condition that in ten years, the garden will be divorced. These were found wanting. In Temryuk was the integral part of the city, which was called "Gardens" - a beautiful and fun place (near the old cemetery on the street. Bouvines towards enterprise "PMC-6"). The reason for cheerfulness kept in cellars, which were available for each resident of the outskirts of the city. I drink some of the wine on the spot, and most to retailers, to the ports - Kerch, Mariupol, Taganrog, Rostov. Later, after the October Revolution of 1917, on the grounds the "garden" was formed farm "in the covenant Ilyich" for growing horticulture and viticulture. Then the farm was transferred to the farm, and still later orchards cut down, the land was given to the housing for victims of the flood in 1969, but this is - while another era of Soviet history page of the wine industry. E. Chuprina