For Wine Gourmets

Those people who consider themselves real wine connoisseurs don't have to travel far away anymore in order to find their favorite wines, but instead simply pay a visit one of the wine boutiques in Kyiv that offers an elite selection complete. In this overview we omit Lavinia wine boutique and restaurant. The collection of Wineport club-boutique that not long ago became a restaurant also presents about 600 bottles. The number may not bring you much impression indeed, but the idea of the owners was to collect not the biggest number, but the best high quality drinks of their class, suited a perfect ratio of quality and price. Wine port presents all the wine area of Italy, Great Wines of France, as well as New Zeland Spain, Uruguay, South Africa, Australia and Croatia. The store also carries vintage port, cognacs Delamain and Tesseron, Madeira and sherry and sparkling wines by Bollinger, Ferrari and Cristal, millesime armagnacs Legrand, of different year terms, as well as whiskey from all the famous whiskey producers of Scotland.
As for the restaurant the menu has the main highlight as appetizers, designed to serve as a great addition to your chosen wine. Their selection of greatly cooked meat wills surely leace unique and impressive memory. There are several kinds of French salami, "Culiato d'Oro" ham, "Kutten Schinken Papen Stuck" (German dried pork) with nuts, with white mushrooms and made of black Gascogne pig, and Spanish veal "Cecina de Leono," that is dried for at least 24 months and doesn't contain fat. Among recommended cheeses are the Spanish goat cheese in ashes "Los Balanchares," "Machego," as well as sheep cheese in the olive oil with rosemary, Swiss Tete-de-Moine (Monk's Head).
Cheese and meat plates are presented with jelly (German wine confiture - white and red) and indeed with fruit.
The other store of PremiumVin chain has already opened in September of this year. PremiumVin is able to provide you with wines from France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay Portugal, Austria, Chili, US, Canada, New Zealand, Hungary, Germany, and South Africa.
While the first store is located on the Stolichne highway, in the suburbs of Kyiv, the other shop admits shoppers in the very center of city, on Muzeyniy lane, right next to the prestige Le Grand Cafe. Because 80 percent of the assortment at PremiumVin has been being imported by the company-owner of the wine boutique, the prices for those drinks are pretty favorable.
Among other drinks whiskeys, grappa, liquors, and millesime armagnacs aged from 1945 to recent years are offered.
Also PremiumVin carries some products that should come in useful to you when cooking refined dishes to be served with the wine - high quality olive oil and balsamic vinager, as well as glasses to serve your drinks in - crystal by Riedel and Spiegeau.
Besides, you'll be permitted to taste the wine before purchasing it, and get your purchase delivered to your home for free.
Barrymore boutique opened on 2 November 2007 and became a worthy addition to Kyiv's outfits carrying alcohol and cigars. The first floor of the shop is occupied with expensive spirits as Lheraud cognacs (imported to Ukraine by Barrymore's owners) and Legrand armagnacs. The highlight of the collection is millesime cognac Lheraud Petit Champagne 1865 - an alluring collectible for some serious connoisseurs. On the first floor you'll also find a tasting hall and humidor filled with cigars.
So if you feel to taste and to buy a perfect foreign wine or the Ukrainian one you are pleased to pay a visit to one of the Ukrainian real estates - wine shops and restaurants, which will bring you into a wonderful world of terrific taste. |