Massandra winery, located on the southern coast of Crimea, located in the immediate vicinity of the resort town of Yalta in the small town of Muscat. The history of Massandra wines began in the mid 19th century when a small settlement Massandra came into the possession of count Mikhail Vorontsov. He founded a wine-making industry, which supported the most famous French master winemakers. Industrial scale production of wine has reached only 50 years later, after the estate became the property of the Russian Imperial house.

In 1892 at the invitation of the Russian Emperor Alexander III in Massandra arrived chief winemaker of Specific estates of the Crimea and the Caucasus, Prince Lev Golitsyn, had already considered the founding wineries of the New world. By his order there was built an underground factory tunnel type for the production and aging of table and dessert wines.

Externally, the Massandra winery building, built of local Crimean light gray stone, has the look of a medieval castle with tower and wrought iron gates. The underground part is seven basements as a gallery with stone niches intended for vintage wines. This repository is unique because of its special microclimate, which is held year-round temperature +12 ° C, ideal for storage of high quality wines. In addition, the winery building houses the shop excerpts dessert wine, tasting rooms and wine Museum.

The Association "Massandra" - one of the largest enterprises producing wine and growing grapes, tobacco and other agricultural products not only in Ukraine but also in CIS countries. Collection of Massandra wine, which is more than one million bottles, is the largest in the world. In 1998 she was listed in the Guinness Book of records.