2003 Massandra South Coast Dessert Wine (Port) from Russian czars royal winery in Crimea, Ukraine has won Toronto Wine & Cheese Show awards in 2006. 2007, & 2008. Massandra wines are among the most interesting but overlooked by general public wines. Massandra winery amassed arguably the world’s largest and oldest old wine collection in its cellars, including 1775 wine recently auctioned for $50,000/b. Massandra wines were named by Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia as: “nothing less than sensational”, as having “more class, fragrance, and finesse than anything”… “that has ever been made in Oporto” …
