Winemaking as a popular branch of food industry in Ukraine

Abstract

Ukraine has a well-established wine industry with long traditions. Many varieties of grapes can be grown throughout Ukraine. Wine products obtained by fermentation on the importance and scale of the use of grapes in industrial processing are traditionally in the first place. However, the most favorable conditions for its growth are observed in those regions where mild winters and long hot summers (the largest number of vineyards in the country is in the Odessa region, in particular, in the south - in Ukrainian Bessarabia, in the second place was (until 2014) - in Crimean Autonomous Republic, the remaining approximately 17% of plantations - in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zakarpattia and Zaporizhzhia regions). Technical grape varieties (using to the production of alcoholic beverages) account for 95% of the harvest.