Kagor

This dessert red wine has a tradition of about two hundred years. At the end of the 18th century, the Russian Orthodox Church purchased wine from the French area of as a and the Russian Tsar's court as a magnificent wine for special occasions. Since there are pronunciation problems in Russian regarding the "h", it became a "g" and "Kagor" a synonym for mass wine. It was already one of the of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1917). Today it is produced by the famous former Tsar and today's state winery in the . The sweet aged red wine is pressed in the from . A similar dessert wine called "Kagor Tsarskoye" (Tsarskoye = Tsars) is also pressed in neighbouring from , but also from local varieties. Well-known producers in Moldova are Acorex, Château Vartel, Dionysos Mereni and Purcari.

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