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Kagor

This dessert red wine has a tradition of about two hundred years. At the end of the 18th century, the Russian Orthodox Church acquired wine from the French region when and the Russian Tsar's court as a pomp wine on special occasions. Since there are problems of pronunciation of the "h" in Russian, it became a "g" and "Kagor" a synonym for Messwein. He was already one of the the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1917). Today it is from the famous former Tsar and present state winery in the produced. The sweet red wine will be in the out vinified.

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