Map The Wine

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St Petersburg

Not a wine region in the usual sense: vines are grown in the cold north only as a curiosity, and the city is the main place where wine is sold.

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Where it is

Saint Petersburg lies at about 60 degrees north on the Gulf of Finland, which is much too cold and dark for normal grapevines. There is no wine region here, and wine from the south and abroad is sold through the city, a big port.

History

Under the Russian emperors, wines from Crimea, the Caucasus and Western Europe were imported, and glasshouses grew grapes in the imperial parks as a luxury.

Today

A few enthusiasts grow hardy hybrids and Amur grape (Vitis amurensis) in gardens. Commercial Russian wine comes from the south, in Krasnodar, Stavropol, Rostov and Dagestan.