WINE DAY CELEBRATED
Panorama.am
19:48 07/11/2008
Today wine day is celebrated. In Armenia wine day has been celebrated
in Vanadzor where a real fate was organized. "Union of wine-makers
of Armenia" plans to take the initiative to apply to state bodies to
fix official celebration of the holiday.
Avag Harutyunyan, the president of the union said to Panorama.am that
once Armenian wine was famous in the world. But currently Armenian
grape is used to produce cognac.
According to A. Harutyunyan in recent years 67% of Armenian wine
is exported to CIS countries, USA is in the second horizontal and
European countries are in the third. Note that only 10% of grape in
Armenia is used in the production of wine-making.