The leading tabloid “Newsweek” has dedicated a long article to
Georgian wine. “Don’t miss the Khvanchkara!” – This is the name of the article,
where wine festival held in Mtskheta is described in details. Also, Georgian
hospitality is stressed there.
“Georgian wine became the
first, symbolic victim in the mid-decade conflict between Moscow
and Tbilisi. In
2006 Russia
declared the quality of Georgian wine to be unacceptably poor and banned all
imports from the country. But Georgia took the dire moment as an opportunity
to innovate and update their outdated methods”, - is noted in the article
published by the “Newsweek”.
In the end of the article, the
“Newsweek” publishes a comment of Dimitry Lebanidze the factory director at
Kindzmarauli Marani: “If Russians wait for two to three years before lifting
the embargo, all our best wines will go to China,
Canada, Europe, and the United States”.
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