Sudak, Sugdeya, Surozh are the names of a Crimean settlement. History has carefully preserved them for future generations. At present the little town lies in the Sudak valley, surrounded by mountains and hills from three sides and washed by the waters of warm sea from the fourth. The valley is beautifully dotted with orchards and numerous vineyards, where grapes have been grown from ancient times.

  One of the most distinguished local grape varieties is the white Kokour, the vineyards of which are widely spread all along the eastern coast of the Crimea. This local white grape variety is mostly used for the production of dessert wine - Kokour Surozh.

  This wine has a lovely amber-golden colour and extraordinary bouquet, developing from honey, apricot and field flowers when young to sponge and chocolate cake when mature. Fine Kokour Surozh dessert wines of the Massandra collection have already passed a long period of bottle maturation in the mysterious quietness of cool underground cellars. Without losing hues of sunny colour and subtle hints on bouquet and palate, they have mysteriously concentrated the energy of the sun's rays while being stored in the darkness of subterranean galleries. The wines are famous for their beautiful palette of golden to tawny, almost red amber, as well as for their extraordinary bouquet developing from honey, meloun and fragrant flowers to well-pronounced hints of nuts.