Armenia Alcohol Tourism | Booze Traveler | HD

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Working in the bars of southern Boston, Jack found out the most important thing - it is worth drinking a couple of alcoholic cocktails with a stranger and a whole world opens up before you! Thus, Jack Maxwell went on a trip around Armenia to find unique alcoholic drinks, as well as the people who produce and drink them.

Armenia produces a remarkable variety of grapes under soil and climate conditions perfect for fermenting excellent dry wines. However, the largest selection of wines are semisweet to sweet dessert wines. Armenians prefer them that way, choosing harder drinks like brandy or vodka over wine at dinners. The dessert wines are not to be underrated though, since they are among the best produced and have begun to win international competitions. Dry and table wines that are particularly good are the red Areni and the honey-colored semisweet Voskevaz.

Of all Armenia's alcoholic drinks, the Armenian brandy is its best known product. It's no wonder why, since it is truly one of the best brandies in the world, the only type William Churchill drank (Stalin often complained about Churchill, saying he cared more about his next shipment of Armenian brandy than how the war was going). Armenian brandy won its first Grand Prix Gold Medal in France in 1904, which has been followed by 51 gold, 21 silver and 3 bronze medals over the years.

Besides the Russian vodka, traditional local vodkas, called "oghi" or "aragh", usually distilled from fruit are very popular. Honi aragh (Cornelian cherry vodka), Tsirani aragh (Apricot vodka) and the most common, the Tuti aragh (Mulberry vodka).

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