The art of making wine in our region goes back to ancient times. The Celts were the first to grow grapes in the Silver Land. They lived on the territory of modern Transcarpathia in the first millennium BC. Transcarpathia’s unique climate favoured the ancient masters of vine. With its warm, sunny summers, mild winters, fertile soil and topography, everything in Transcarpathia seems to have been created for the purpose of planting vines. Later, the Romans brought with them new, more advanced technologies. After the Romans came the Ostrogothic Germans, the Huns, then the Slavs and Hungarians. In the XII-XIX centuries, the Italians and the French brought and distributed selected varieties of vines in our region. In particular, thanks to them, such table varieties as white and red Shasla, aromatic Passatutti, as well as wine grape varieties such as Furmint, Fetiascu, white Bagatore, and Italian Riesling became widespread in our region. All of the above-mentioned peoples have contributed to the development of winemaking in Transcarpathia.