Sotheby's Label the Massandra Collection South Coast Rose Port 1945 (Crimea)
South Coast Rose Port 1945. Livadia Vintage Tawny Ukraine (Crimea}. The Massandra collection was begun by Massandra's first winemaker, Prince Golitzin, and it is really quite something. About 10,000 bottles of top-notch wine (many from the Crimea) have been added each year. These have survived some of the bloodiest upheavals of the 20th century: the Russian revolution, when the collection was taken over by the state, and the German occupation of Yalta in 1941-45, when it was painstakingly evacuated so as to elude the grasp of the Nazis. Some of its gems reached British palates a decade ago, when Sotheby's was offered two consignments to put up for auction.
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