Cahors - it's one of the most extractive wines, which has a thick and heavy, but at the same time soft and velvety taste with hints of plum, black currant, raspberry, cherry, blackthorn, nightshade, milk cream.Most high-quality Kagor wines exhibit chocolate tones.
wine color ruby red, garnet, bright, vibrant, red, like blood.In the process of aging bulbs purchased and brick tones.The aroma of wine found the cooked fruit with slight nuances of caramelization, coffee and chocolate, black currant and cherry tones.
Cahors is probably the only representative of a group of typical classic wines, made to order, which was made by the Russian Orthodox Church to commit in remembrance of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ Sacrament of the Eucharist (Thanksgiving).
his name, he is obliged to the French town of Cahors, situated not far from the Pyrenees, in the vicinity of which are grown intensely colored grapes - Saperavi, Cabernet Sauvignon, mattresses, Bastardo, Merlot and others. This important order could be entrusted to experienced winemakers who are familiar withtechnology of production of red wines.With regard to the variety and quality of the wine consumed in the service, then it is said in the "Proceedings of didactic" - "To make a sacrament of the Eucharist should drink wine grape, since this is the fault committed sacrament of Savior Himself.Grape wine should be red to look for sensual gaze portrayed blood Saviour supernaturally fed in the Eucharist, all the more that undoubtedly use the Savior at the Last Supper is a red wine that was in common use in Palestine.And Holy Church from time immemorial used in the Eucharist red grape wine. "
Ancient Russia without its vineyards, has not established a clear relationship to the wine flavor.Our ancestors liked sweet wines, as well as other intoxicating beverages containing sugar (honey beer) and therefore ordered the French church wine was a traditional taste - sweet.
Russian church history of wine dates back to the XVII century.In the early years of Christianity in Russia sacramental wine imported from Greece priests - the Greeks, and then used for this purpose Italian wines.Stoglavy Council in 1551, be used in the monasteries only fryazhskie wine (fryagami Russian chroniclers called the Italians).Later the wine was bought Russian church on Mologa, Makarevskoy Novgorod fairs and foreign merchants.It was only in the early XVII century Persian merchants brought to Astrakhan Caucasian vines and handed them over to local monks to plant near the monastery.Harvest these vines gave the first sacramental wine in Russia.In 1613, by order of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich monk was requested to supply wine for the table, and the church in 1658. Governor Romadanovsky sent to Moscow 41 a barrel sacramental wine.From the Tsar on 17 January 1659 addressed to the Astrakhan governor Prince Dmitry Lvov and Nikifor Beklemesheva known that a treasury in charge of winemaking Paskayunos Padavin, who was ordered to prepare exclusively sacramental wine.The Governors were required to ensure that in training to give the Russian people a few "navykli" in preparation sacramental wine and could not make good wine masters.
wine produced is reported in the churches, monasteries and churches only to conduct the Holy Synod, who got it right in 1733.At this time, as the sacramental wine used Voloska and Moldovan wines.These wines are produced in the wine-producing regions of Russia were dry.In other regions we used importations foreign wines.Producing countries chose to send Fortified wines that are better tolerated long sea transportation.In the XVII-XIX centuries these were the type of Cahors wine from France and Benicarlo - from Spain.
the end of XIX century the idea of the church as the fault had the sweet and moderately - strong, intense - red and without impurities.From the Russian church of wine to the greatest extent we meet these requirements Crimean wines.In Crimea, initiated the production of this wine proved to be the owner of the famous gardens Gurzufsky Gubonin.By the time dessert wines such as Cahors spread throughout Russia, as a church.However, the church used and dry red wine.
Church wine based on the decision of the Moscow congress of growers and winemakers from the 1902 "stands out from the mass of wine consumed in Russia, in a completely separate group, subject to maintaining the spiritual authorities and may be church-liturgical sweet and church liturgical dry."
great need in the church wine, which consumed not only for the needs of the Church, but also for weddings, name-day, memorial services, as well as during illness, as people attributed his healing properties, led to his incredible fraud.Artificial wines of this type were made in Moscow, Rostov, Odessa, Nizhny Novgorod out of the water, blueberry fruit drinks, grain spirit, sugar beet, molasses, prunes, and often with the addition of saccharin, aniline dye, salicylic acid.
cases of falsification of both foreign and domestic wines of note in the XVII century.New Trade charter of 1667 established the need to respect the quality of sacramental wine "... the church (wine) to import the good, without the mixing, for church potreb ..." was issued a series of royal decrees, even about the quality of the church wines and measures to prevent their counterfeiting.The decree of 1683 gave the right to duty-free importation of wine from abroad, and another decree established the ruble fee.In both cases, particularly the penalties for falsification of wine.
After years of discussions have concluded that the best option to combat this scourge will ensure adequate control by the Church, beginning with the process of processing of grapes and ending with bottling the finished wine.
history sacramental wine made in our time.The Agricultural company "South" in Taman wine made Church, consecrated Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, became the winner of many international competitions, received recognition and blessing of wine Grace.Here is what the creators of Grace Metropolitan of Stavropol and Baku Gideon: "The unique sacramental wine Grace ... is fully consistent with the strict requirements that apply to the wine used in worship, especially in the Eucharist ... The product is called your grace so illuminatedBy the grace of the All-Holy Spirit, and so will all partake of the ney Russian children in the health of body and soul. "
should be noted that the concept of "Cahors" and "sacramental wine" are not synonymous.Church wine can be represented only Cahors or Benicarlo, and mixtures thereof.However, not everyone is Cahors can be used as sacramental wine.For example, an old high Cahors, in the color which is dominated by the onion brick tones at three dilution with water can not meet the demand for this indicator sacramental wine.
Thus, Cahors, originally made as a sacramental wine to further expand its value, becoming the founder of a special group of wines.By Cahors include vysokoekstraktivnye sweet wines with an intense red color, the palate showing black currant, cherry, blackthorn and other specific pitch due to grape variety and technology.
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