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Thousand-year history of northern viticulture in Ukraine: challenges and opportunities
Article number
1418_3
Pages
19 – 26
Language
English
Abstract
Global and regional climate change has started to have a negative impact on the world’s known winemaking regions.
However, the experience of many countries around the world shows the prospect of growing grapes in unsuitable areas.
In the south of Ukraine, winemaking was developed from the 7th to the 3rd centuries BC, when the Greeks colonized the Black Sea region.
First historical information about the cultivation of grapes in the north of Ukraine is in the chronicle of Nikon (1151). With the spread of Christianity in Kyivan Rus, vineyards were established at monasteries and princely palaces of Kyiv.
Currently, there are only 160 wineries in Ukraine, 40 of which are craft wineries.
The classic wine regions of Ukraine have long been the Crimea, the Black Sea region (includes Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson), Zaporizhzhia, and Zakarpattia.
Since 2014, part of the southern vineyards has been temporarily occupied by the russians, some wineries have been mined, looted and damaged during the unprovoked invasion of our sovereign state.
In recent years, winemaking has been actively moving to the western, central and northern regions, where historically it existed since hundreds of years ago.
Modern Ukraine follows the path of the world’s major wine-producing countries, prioritizing quality over quantity.
Even now, during the war, Ukrainian winemakers take part in international competitions, and their wines get awards.
As of 2020, the vineyard area north of the industrial cultivation zone in Ukraine is 1600 ha.
In recent years, the sum of active temperatures of 10°C and above in Kyiv has been more than 3000°C. In 2017-2021 at the Prof.
V.L. Symyrenko Department of Horticulture of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 50°23’02” N, 30°30’20” E, Kyiv studied 10 new Ukrainian-bred grape cultivars – wine ‘Aromatnyi’, ‘Illichivskyi Rannii’, ‘Muskat Odeskyi’, ‘Shkoda’, ‘Yarylo’, and table ‘Zahadka’, ‘Kardyshakh Tairovskyi’, ‘Kyshmysh Tairovskyi’, ‘Kometa’, ‘Persei’, rootstock ‘Riparia × Rupestris 101-14’, irrigated plot, covered grape culture.
However, the experience of many countries around the world shows the prospect of growing grapes in unsuitable areas.
In the south of Ukraine, winemaking was developed from the 7th to the 3rd centuries BC, when the Greeks colonized the Black Sea region.
First historical information about the cultivation of grapes in the north of Ukraine is in the chronicle of Nikon (1151). With the spread of Christianity in Kyivan Rus, vineyards were established at monasteries and princely palaces of Kyiv.
Currently, there are only 160 wineries in Ukraine, 40 of which are craft wineries.
The classic wine regions of Ukraine have long been the Crimea, the Black Sea region (includes Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson), Zaporizhzhia, and Zakarpattia.
Since 2014, part of the southern vineyards has been temporarily occupied by the russians, some wineries have been mined, looted and damaged during the unprovoked invasion of our sovereign state.
In recent years, winemaking has been actively moving to the western, central and northern regions, where historically it existed since hundreds of years ago.
Modern Ukraine follows the path of the world’s major wine-producing countries, prioritizing quality over quantity.
Even now, during the war, Ukrainian winemakers take part in international competitions, and their wines get awards.
As of 2020, the vineyard area north of the industrial cultivation zone in Ukraine is 1600 ha.
In recent years, the sum of active temperatures of 10°C and above in Kyiv has been more than 3000°C. In 2017-2021 at the Prof.
V.L. Symyrenko Department of Horticulture of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, 50°23’02” N, 30°30’20” E, Kyiv studied 10 new Ukrainian-bred grape cultivars – wine ‘Aromatnyi’, ‘Illichivskyi Rannii’, ‘Muskat Odeskyi’, ‘Shkoda’, ‘Yarylo’, and table ‘Zahadka’, ‘Kardyshakh Tairovskyi’, ‘Kyshmysh Tairovskyi’, ‘Kometa’, ‘Persei’, rootstock ‘Riparia × Rupestris 101-14’, irrigated plot, covered grape culture.
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Authors
Y.Y. Andrusyk, O.S. Vasylenko, V.H. Onischenko, O.S. Havryliuk
Keywords
Vitis vinifera L., grape, wine, cultivars, temperature, climate change
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