GEORGIA BOOSTS WINE QUALITY TO FIND NEW NON-RUSSIAN MARKETS
September 1st, 2010
BY MARK GODFREY
GEORGIA'S wine industry took every opportunity to bask in the limelight when the 2010 International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) Congress was staged in Georgia's capital Tbilisi. Opening the June congress, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (NOTE - SPELLING IS CORRECT) even took the opportunity to praise local product as a "freedom wine", boasting that Russia's four-year ban on Georgian wine has only improved its quality. Georgian wine companies, he said, had been forced to export to more selective markets.
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