Georgia and Armenia compete for brand “Cradle of Wine”

The Wine-makers’ Union of Armenia intends to upturn the EU decision on registration of the brand 'Georgia is the Cradle of Wine'. At the moment representatives of the Union are studying the procedure for sending an appeal.

The chairman of the Wine-makers Union, Avag Arutyunyan, stated that not only Georgia, but also other countries of the region, first of all Armenia, can lay claim to the status of “Cradle of Wine.”

According to the head of the academic Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Pavel Avetisyan, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, and even a part of Azerbaijan can be considered to be the cradle of wine – in these countries corresponding archeological materials have been found, Day.az reports.