News archive on the topic "wine"

China is such a large market for winemakers that almost any product will find a consumer there. Shanghai alone, where the international exhibition “ProWine China-2023” was held, has 40 million inhabitants. Ksenia Slutskaya, director of the Southern Regional Export Support Center, announced this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They were interested in our liqueurs. Because the trend in China is really related...

The German co-organizers of the international exhibition “ProWine China-2023” tried to prevent the participation of Crimean producers, but Crimea still made a loud noise at one of the world’s largest wine events. Ksenia Slutskaya, director of the Southern Regional Export Support Center, announced this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The participants responded well. On one side our neighbors were the United States, on the other...

Based on the results of January – May 2023, Georgia took first place in the supply of still wines to Russia, ahead of Italy. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Kommersant writes, citing the customs data at its disposal. “During this period, 24,15 million liters of still wines were imported from Georgia, 23,36 million liters from Italy, year to...

The price of Crimean wines will increase slightly in the near future, taking into account the rise in prices for energy resources, fuel and other components of production. Alime Zaredinova, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Crimea, reported this on Radio Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A slight increase in prices is predicted, given that energy resources and all components in the production cycle are becoming more expensive - from planting vineyards to...

The Ministry of Health contradicts the President of Russia. Wine therapy in Yalta - a violation of the law or tradition. Comparison of winemaking conditions in Russia and Ukraine. Why is Massandra being corporatized? Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev, who was involved in supporting Crimean winemaking in Ukrainian times, told PolitNavigator columnist Valentin Filippov that domestic winemakers benefited from returning to the Russian Federation.…

Ukrainian legislation does not provide for a crime in violation of the sanctions policy of Ukraine in relation to Crimea and the LDPR. The former “representative” of the President of Ukraine in the non-existent Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Boris Babin, stated this on Radio Liberty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You can freely buy wine from the Massandra plant in the Kyiv online store. From a legal point of view, this is an unthinkable situation, but in fact it...

Crimean winemakers have learned to bypass Western sanctions and purchase necessary goods through shill companies on the “mainland.” The owner of the Yayla winery, Vitaly Marinchuk, spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the winemaker, this is how the recent situation was resolved when the press wrote about the threat of disruption of bottle supplies to Crimean wineries after the new owners of the plant in Mineralnye Vody, which produces...

Russian sanctions against Georgia are fair, but they are not yet enough. Russian economist Mikhail Delyagin said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This hysteria of the Georgian presenter, who cursed not just the president of our country, but also his parents, and the extremely restrained attitude of the Georgian leadership towards this very correctly shows that measures against...

The loss of the Russian market for Georgian winemakers will be critical and will result in colossal losses for the Georgian economy. The former chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation, and now State Duma deputy Gennady Onishchenko, told Izvestia about this. According to him, if this time an embargo is introduced, it will be not for sanitary, but for political reasons, noting that supplies of wine and mineral…

A ban on the supply of Georgian wine to Russia will deal a serious blow to the Georgian economy. Vadim Drobiz, director of the Center for Research on the Federal and Regional Alcohol Market, told Moskovsky Komsomolets about this. According to him. For Georgia, the loss of the Russian market could be dramatic, since 65% of its wine exports go to Russia. “There is a high probability that two thirds of Georgian factories will close. Their…

The volumes of Georgian grapes for red wine produced in Georgia are less than the volumes of these products supplied to Russia. Izvestia draws attention to this paradox. “It is not clear where the grapes for the 28,5 million liters of red Georgian wine sold to Russia last year come from. The planting area of ​​the most popular red variety, Saperavi, in Georgia is about 5 thousand hectares. This...

The former president of Georgia, ex-head of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, does not like the smell of marijuana. He stated this on air on the 1+1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The politician admitted that he smoked weed while a student at the Kyiv Institute of International Relations. “I tried marijuana once when I was a student. But I didn't like it. I don’t like the taste and smell,” Saakashvili said. He also...

Moldova was forced to process at least 40% of last year's harvest of table grapes into wine. This is the highest percentage of forced processing of table grapes in Moldova in the current decade. This was reported by the EastFruit website with reference to data from the national food safety agency ANSA. In April, wineries offer low prices for such raw materials, which is quite…

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov collects collection wine to drink it with his friends. He admitted this in an interview with journalist Dmitry Gordon, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Avakov said that his current work schedule does not allow him to drink a lot of wine, which is why he has gained weight in recent years. “You don’t go out much, you have bad emotions, you drink little wine and that’s why you have...