Drinkers are unimpressed by Putin’s ruling that only Russian bubbly passes the test while French bottles must be labelled ‘sparkling wine’
Last orders at the Magnum wine bar in Moscow’s White Square business district are called before midnight due to a Covid curfew. Only the vaccinated can drink inside so drinkers congregate outside, bottles of wine chilling in metal buckets.
These are confounding times for the Russian capital’s fine wine and champagne bars, not only operating during a pandemic but – as of Friday last week – coming to terms with a bizarre new law that ignores France’s appellations for champagne and rules that only domestically produced shampanskoye is worthy of the prestigious name.
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