Ukraine

Country

Ukraine's wine industry centres on the Black Sea coast around Odesa, with a long-standing tradition of bottle-fermented sparkling wine dating back to the Soviet era. Its most storied producer, Bakhmut's Artwinery, aged millions of bottles inside a vast 19th-century gypsum mine until Russia's invasion reached the region.

Grapes grown here

Aligoté Principal Chardonnay Principal Cabernet Sauvignon Permitted Merlot Permitted Riesling Permitted Saperavi Permitted

Sub-regions

Bakhmut

Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, was home to Artwinery, one of the world's largest sparkling wine cellars: nearly 50 million bottles aged using the traditional method inside a 19th-century gypsum mine more than 70 metres underground. Production stopped after the city was destroyed during Russia's full-scale invasion of 2022–2023, though hundreds of thousands of bottles were rescued from the mine before it fell.