EU AGENCYAND RIOJA PLOT SERB WINE REBIRTH
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPAIN'S wine-making province La Rioja is heading a Spanish team tasked with helping the Serbia agriculture ministry resurrect a once thriving local wine industry. The European Agency for Reconstruction-managed Euro 1.4 million project will improve quality assurance and vineyard registration and classification. Serbia vineyard hectares fell from 140,000 in 1995 to 65,000 in 2005, with imports and poor marketing hitting Serb sales.
SPAIN'S wine-making province La Rioja is heading a Spanish team tasked with helping the Serbia agriculture ministry resurrect a once thriving local wine industry. The European Agency for Reconstruction-managed Euro 1.4 million project will improve quality assurance and vineyard registration and classification. Serbia vineyard hectares fell from 140,000 in 1995 to 65,000 in 2005, with imports and poor marketing hitting Serb sales.
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