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    500 BOTTLES EXPORTED ANNUALLY FROM ARMENIA

    Lragir.am
    06 June 06

    By the end of this year the law on wine will have been adopted. The
    chair of the Association of Winemakers of Armenia Avag Harutiunyan
    presented how the Armenian viticulture could benefit from it and how
    satisfied the winemakers could be.

    "We have presented a conceptual package. So far this branch has been
    managed or guided by the Soviet standards, whereas Europe adopted
    the law we have just introduced as long ago as 1909. For you to
    understand what this is, let us try to realize the difference between
    these two big policies. The personage of Celentano from a famous
    film tells the place and time when the wine was produced. This is
    a European approach. God created every area with its peculiarities,
    and the wine of every area is different. The Soviet ideology says:
    collective economy, collective vineyards, collective wine, and
    everything is mixed up. Now we are trying to adopt the idea of wines
    with geographical origin, i.e. the European approach. Common wine
    will be produced in Armenia as well, which can be made of grapes
    grown and bottled anywhere."

    "Today 500 thousand bottles are annually exported from Armenia.

    We can export 5 million bottles without the quality affected. But
    look what may happen above 5 million bottles. If the law is adopted,
    in the production of common wines we may import wines and mix with
    our wine; with a ratio standing at 49 to 51 it will be considered
    Armenian wine. We can buy good wine from Argentina at 10 cents, Spain
    for 20 cents, Italy for up to 40 cents, France for up to 50 cents,
    Moldavia up to 60 cents, Georgia for 1 dollar, and mix with our wine.

    Armenia may follow this path on the condition that corruption and
    subjectivity are reduced to zero. "
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