Noy Factory
Nineteenth-century distillery built inside the ruins of a Persian fortress, with cellars still lined by old wine barrels.
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This guide to the Noy Factory in Yerevan opens with a question: why did merchant Nerses Tairyants hold onto a heap of earthquake rubble for thirty-four years before giving it up? It follows him from buying the ruins of a Persian fortress in 1865 to pressing wine into its vaults in 1877 with his cousin, winemaker Vasiliy Tairov, and later distilling brandy by French cognac methods, with help along the way from relatives including painter Ivan Aivazovsky. Walk down into the cellars to see the old barrels still lining the walls.
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