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Wine from small Ukrainian winery that narrowly escaped Russian occupation wins prestigious world award

A wine from a small Ukrainian winery, whose vineyards sit on the edge of the newly occupied Russian territory, has won gold at Decanter World Wines, reports Guardian.

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“I can’t say that we were surprised by the victory, because our wine is really very good,” said Svetlana Tsybak, executive director of the winery Beykush and President of the Ukrainian Association of Craft Winemakers.

This victory pleased at least one small business in the target country.

The number of small wine producers in Ukraine began to grow after the first Russian intervention in 2014. In early 2015, the Ukrainian currency depreciated by two-thirds, making imported goods expensive and causing a surge in Ukrainian-made consumer goods such as clothing, food, and furniture.

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Winery Beykush is located near the city of Ochakov in the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine. It is still under Ukrainian control, but Russian forces have turned their attention to the area, which houses a strategic naval base.

Beykush has been presenting its wine for the third year already. Since the export of alcohol from Ukraine is expensive and difficult, and visas for Ukrainians to the UK were almost impossible until recently, Tsybak and her team went to great lengths to get the bottles to the Decanter judges.

Two years ago they sent several bottles with a Ukrainian diplomat flying to London. Last year they shipped their wine to Spain and then shipped it to the UK. This year they were sent to Hungary. They moved six boxes across the border one by one. But their friend in Hungary was then unable to deliver it to the UK.

By that time, a war had begun in Ukraine, and a friend came to the rescue. “A Ukrainian who lives in London offered to fly to Hungary with two suitcases. He filled them with 30 bottles and took them to the UK,” Cybak said.

Cybak recently found an importer in the UK. The wines that the winery shipped to western Ukraine are now traveling around Europe in a van.

Russia controls Ukraine's eastern sea line, and a senior Russian commander has said he wants to seize the entire Black Sea coast. His warships blocked Ukrainian ports.

«Наш регион регулярно обстреливают, поэтому мы просто работаем, когда можем, — сказала Цыбак. — Было время, когда у нас не было доступа к нашему складу из-за боевых действий. Как только мы получили доступ, мы погрузили все, что могли, в грузовик и отправили в западную Украину».

No more than 17 people work in Beikush at the same time during the harvest season. The owner, businessman Evgeny Shneideris, originally from the Mykolaiv region, became addicted to wine while on vacation with his family. In 2013, I decided to see what kind of grapes would grow in Nikolaev. The family bought seeds from all over Europe and within Ukraine and eventually developed their own grape variety.

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Fifty wines were awarded by experts who flew to London. A total of 18 producers from all over the world presented their wines. The tasting at the Decanter awards is blind, so the judges had no idea they would be the bearers of rare good news for a war-torn manufacturer.

On March 4, the organization issued a statement condemning the Russian invasion, canceling Russian participants' applications, and canceling fees from Ukrainian participants.

«Мы понимаем, что у мировых виноделов больше того, что их объединяет, чем разъединяет, но мы чувствуем, что должны отстаивать свою позицию, — сказали в Decanter. — Все мы в Decanter и DWWA надеемся и молимся о мирном разрешении этой ситуации, и мы посылаем наши наилучшие пожелания всем пострадавшим».

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