Ukraine says Crimea wine sale illegal

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Ukraine sees Massandra's singular wines as function of its internal inheritance



The Ukrainian governance has condemned a Crimean vendue of vintage wines as illegal and warned alien buyers that external sanctions are good. The Massandra winery close Yalta is Ukrainian governance place, but new managers took complete subsequently Russia's appropriation of Crimea in Marchland 2014.

Massandra began auctioning some 13,000 vintage wines on Tuesday, about dating backrest to 1935 and the Soviet war eld. The truehearted's site says strange collectors let shown vivid stake. "Collectors cosmopolitan were thirstily awaiting the sale and the winery's headphone lines sustain been ring non-stop," a Massandra instruction aforementioned (in Russian).



Massandra says around of the "pearls" of Crimean vino are on sale, including madeira from Koktebel and Alushta, which is no yearner produced. A 1944 muscadelle produced scarce afterward the dismissal of Yalta by Soviet soldiery is too on sale.

A spokesman for Ukraine's husbandry ministry, Olexander Liev, warned Massandra stave that they would be held "reprehensively responsible the illegal sale of Ukrainian interior inheritance". "We are certainly that well-thought-of outside and Russian collectors agnize that they peril having outside sanctions applied to them for illegal economical activities," he aforementioned.






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Chair Vladimir Putin and Italy's ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi toured Massandra in September



EU countries, the US and another Westerly nations are boycotting barter with Crimea below outside sanctions imposed on Russia when it seized the peninsula. In Marching 2014 a bulk voted to articulation Russia in a controversial Crimean referendum, held abaft Russian peculiar forces and local militants had seized Ukrainian military installations.

In September this twelvemonth Russian Prexy Vladimir Putin and Italy's ex-Prime Rector Silvio Berlusconi toured the Massandra winery and allegedly drank a 240-year-old sherry thither. Ukrainian prosecutors accused the winery's new pro-Russian conductor Yanina Pavlenko of illicitly uncorking a bottleful of 1775 Jerez de la Frontera deserving more $90,000 (ВЈ58,000). In the new Massandra assertion, Ms Pavlenko aforesaid wines had been cautiously selected for auctioneer "in ordering not to subvert the appraise of the solicitation at all".

Massandra besides plans to put wines on sale on the cyberspace shortly.



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