The oldest winemaker of Crimea-85 years old!

July 31 celebrates its 85th anniversary the oldest winemaker of the Crimea, honored worker of viticulture and winemaking Crimea, an activist of the Greek society-Felix Feodosidi.

Felix periklovich Feodosidi was born on July 31, 1933 in Kislovodsk. Having successfully passed a great competition, Felix Feodosidi became a student of Praskoveysky College of viticulture and winemaking.

In 1964, a young specialist during his vacation in the Crimea met with the Director of the then-state farm "Koktebel" Mikhail Macedonian. Since then, Felix worked at the plant, where he soon became the chief winemaker.

Under the leadership of the feudal Lords, new capacities were created and mastered For aging of wine — making materials-1500 thousand. Reconstructed crushing and pressing Department, the Department constructed the compressor with the process plant for the treatment of heat and cold on 450 thousand decalitres per year, the plant modernization of 200 thousand dal with Solarium of 15 thousand has given, shop spill with a line capacity of 6 thousand bottles. per hour. Built storage for cognac and brandy for 160 thousand dal a/a; reconstructed workshop of distillation cognac, Charente installation apparatus and Sorabian. The company is one of the largest in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Thanks to the skilful leadership of Felix Periklovich at the plant significantly improved the technology of production of wine materials, organization of labor, improved product quality. By increasing the yield of wine materials from 68 dal to 69.9 dal from one ton of grapes produced an additional 5-6 thousand dal of wine materials per year.

With the direct participation of Felix periklovich feodosidi created new brands of wines and cognacs, such as Aligote "Koktebel", Cabernet "Koktebel", Rkatsiteli "Koktebel", Chardonnay "Koktebel", Madera "Koktebel", Port white "Koktebel", Port red "Koktebel", Kara-Dag, Talisman, Muscat "Koktebel", Bastardo "Cimmeria", Pinot-Fran "Koktebel", Muscat "Kara-Dag", Muscat Ottonel "Koktebel", cognac "Koktebel", cognac "Crimea", cognac "Kutuzov".

Felix Periklovich trained a lot of students. After the plant became an investment project in 2015, Felix continued to consult and cooperate with its specialists. Now zmv "Koktebel" winemaker works his son Constantine.