The owner of the Abrau-Durso group of companies, Boris Titov, commented on the resumption of Belarusian wine in Russia with the words: “Belarus is a country of wonders.” He writes about this RBC .
According to him, the declaration of conformity issued to the Minsk Sparkling Wine Factory will allow the resumption of the practice of importing beverages made from imported wine materials into Russia. Titov called such products “shmurdyak” and noted that Russian producers should not call such a product wine.
The businessman also noticed that the name of the Belarusian wine Ascendencia Syarn Aragonez coincides with the name of the Portuguese wine.
“It’s probably a fake,” Titov commented.
According to him, unlike Russian producers, Belarusians have neither their own wine nor their own name, so they are forced to “use others.” “We do not need other people’s wine and fake names,” Titov emphasized.
In response, the Minsk factory admitted that its products were made from wine materials purchased in Europe. The company also announced that supplies to Russia were stopped due to unprofitability. However, in August, another Belarusian producer entered the Russian market using a similar scheme.
Before that it was known that Russia was in June. reduced Wine purchases in the EU have been minimal since 2010, with only 6.3 thousand tonnes purchased. Supplies from France, Germany, Portugal and the Czech Republic have particularly decreased, while Italy and Spain have increased exports to the Russian market.
Previously in Russia guess The end of the popularity of semi-sweet red wine has come.