As the oil is transformed into wine (26 photos) Bashny.Net

One blogger has visited an amazing place that is not far from Azerbaijani Ganja city in the foothills.



 
built by the Germans left a half-century ago, the village - Elendorf. The word Gastarbeiter, born in Germany fifty years ago, in fact, could emerge much earlier: after a few centuries ago, not the Turks went to Germany to work, and the Germans went to Russia to survive. We drove to the outskirts of the empire, to the Caucasus, where they lived, worked, built, died and left through many generations back. Germans - the people are rational. On the new lands they cultivated what has been the most profitable. In the Volga region - bread. And in the Caucasus, among other things, and grapes.



And how to grow grapes and make wine from it? That is why the Germans have built 150 years ago by Ganja winery, which is now called Huck-kelsky named mountain lake, located nearby. Plane tree whose trunk is seen in the photo, planted at the same time.



This building - a superstructure over the most important and most expensive - over wine cellars.



But the grape begins to turn into wine is not in the basements, but right here, at the receiving point. Raises the blinds and falls out of the hopper grapes harvested in the surrounding fields.



Instead of the old Daville - new machines, which quickly crushed grapes, separated scallops and mash is sent to fermentation vessels. Do not worry, the guardians of tradition! You can, of course, to crush the grapes in the old days - kicks, but only by adding grape juice flies and wasps wine gets better! Therefore, replacing the old to the new, made possible because the country has the money and they are going in the right direction, it is justified! Exactly the same machine for the processing of the grapes used in the best wineries of the world.



Needless fermentation takes place here. You can once again throw up his hands - as without the oak-barrel? Yes, if there were no oil money, it would prepare the wine in oak barrels with the risk does not get what is intended. And here - regardless of the weather, regardless of the outside temperature - everything is under control.



European equipment, the newest.



For example, very high quality filter.



This capacity for wine, 30 000 liters each. But kept in stainless steel containers of only ordinary wine.



However, and ordinary wine is also kept at a strict set temperature.



Here's another filter.



And it is - a workshop for the production of Madeira in the traditional way. Without a serious financial impact of such a plant, too, would not appear. The fact that it used a special roofing material well pass into the sun's rays and heat retention. The street was still cool, but inside the room - just hot.



With drums removed stoppers, they are filled by two-thirds.



Under the influence of heat and sun wine becomes stronger by the day, sweeter and thicker. From slots barrels flowing something thick and sticky as honey.



And here is the most expensive equipment of the plant - stone cellars, built 150 years ago.



In these barrels on shestnadtsatimetrovoy depth aged material, which is intended to become a vintage wine.



Therefore, the wine is kept longer in stainless steel tanks, and in traditional casks. You know, where possible to improve the quality of new - to use the new. Where traditional methods allow to maintain the quality - to use the old. It is rational, "German" (no offense to other people said) approach.



To basements was natural ventilation openings arranged in the walls and channels. Some of the holes located on top, almost under the roof.



A portion of the bottom - near the floor. But most importantly, at a depth of basements always stable temperature and other parameters needed for aging wine.



These huge barrels the wine is stored for several years.



And the contents of the bottles of champagne will be only three years. But producing sparkling wines at the plant began ten years earlier than in Abrau Durso. Still produces a little, but now seriously decided to increase the volume.



Free basements many more wine in these places and only resumed a few years later all these cellars are filled with barrels of wine, and the plant will reach its full capacity.



The fact that Huck-kelsky winery (named after the mountain lake, located nearby) makes wine only from grapes from its own vineyards. After Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign aide new vineyards under Ganja newly planted only five to seven years ago. From the old varieties of vines left those that gave the best wines, for example, madrassahs. In general vineyards planted with the best sorts of vines from France. Of course, these varieties were selected for which suitable climate in Azerbaijan - a little sunnier than in France. But all the vineyards in Azerbaijan - irrigation. Therefore, the results of winemakers are much less will depend on the unpredictable weather.



While in one of the empty basement arranged a tasting room.



I was given samples of wines to try, and I can say that if those winemakers who started to build the plant and cellars tasted this wine, they probably would have remained very happy. This is not the Azerbaijani cheap wine, which once filled the entire Soviet Union, this wine, which is not ashamed to put on the most refined table.



Of course, a little bit sorry that the Germans have left these places, as well as from Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Russia. With this has nothing to do! But it is very good that by the labor of these people will be used wisely. That Elendorf restored, put in order. This again will be a small German town in the middle of Azerbaijan.

Source: stalic.livejournal.com