Abrau-Durso Wine Festival in Abrau-Durso
A wine-themed festival at Abrau-Durso, a settlement near Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast that is home to Russia's oldest sparkling wine producer, founded in 1870 on the orders of Tsar Alexander II as an imperial winery on the shore of Lake Abrau.
Abrau-Durso sits on the shore of Lake Abrau, a freshwater lake near Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast, in a setting chosen deliberately in 1870 when Tsar Alexander II ordered the establishment of an imperial winery there, intended from the start to produce sparkling wine in the French Champagne tradition using the region's favorable coastal microclimate.