Wines of Ukraine
Discover the rich history, geography, and classification of Ukrainian wines. Learn about local grape varieties and the main winemaking regions. Find out where to find exceptional Ukrainian wine brands and surprise your wine-loving friends. Perfect for wine enthusiasts, sommeliers, wine consultants, and influencers looking for new content. Expand your knowledge of Ukrainian wine culture and add a unique twist to your wine journey.
What you’ll learn
- Know the Ukrainian wine history, geography, and classification.
- Learn the common Ukrainian wine grapes and their characteristics – local, hybrids, clones, etc.
- Form the representation of the main Ukrainian winemaking regions – from east to west, from north to south.
- Discover the style, quality, and types of Ukrainian wine brands.
- Collect ideas for your future wine tasting including Ukrainian wines.
- Know where to find something interesting that could surprise your wine friends.
Ukraine has a long wine-making history. Yes, it`s kind of surprise for some people. Even those who love wine and have rich knowledge according to WSET or Guild of Sommelier. We decided to prove that everybody must know about Ukrainian wines, Ukrainian wine-making history, and Ukrainian wine-space today.
In the last decade, Ukraine has been at the point of rediscovering its winemaking. Now, we are redefining our winemaking history, its rich and continuous roots.
This course proposes to learn:
— wine history of Ukraine;
— geography and climate of Ukraine;
— wine grapes of Ukraine;
— wine regions of Ukraine.
There are a lot of information about exceptional wine brands of Ukraine, where to find them and why to try them. Kolonist, Beykush, Shabo, Chizay are some of them, for sure! Over the past 15 years, a large number of decent local Ukrainian wines have appeared. Ukraine has amount of wines that won golden and silver medals. Nowadays wine enthusiasts can find these samples in different wine shops and even in the supermarkets of some countries.
Today Ukrainian winemakers are forming a new culture of consumption and perception of wine, developing an understanding of wine and the ability to appreciate, analyze and enjoy it. Restaurateurs are opening the bars offering exclusively Ukrainian wines. Often you can find yourself at a trendy food pairing where various dishes find a gastronomic match among Ukrainian wines.
Enjoy the course, learn something new, take a wine journey with Ukrainian courage and style!
Who this course is for:
- This course is perfect for anyone who loves wine and want to know more. All the lessons are recommended anyone who has a huge desire to learn the Ukrainian wine culture.
- Sommeliers, cavistes, wine consultants will benefit from the goals of this course. Ukraine is a developing country in terms of wine, but lots of local brands are sold abroad. You can find some Ukrainian wines even in wine-lists of different restaurants.
- Wine-merchants and distributors will open for themselves the new wine-brands. This is useful if you need to surprise wine enthusiasts.
- Wine-influencers will find a new content for their Instagram/Tik-Tok/Youtube stories, reels or posts.
- Those who have WSET or Sommelier certificate and/or are studying for WSET or Sommelier levels.
