Four years ago, the leader of the Russian hygiene investigations office, Gennadij Onischtschenko declared: “So far we have only found a few polluted wines, however, now it is more than 50 percent, which is why we decided to ban any wine imports from that area”. Today in 2010, Gennadij Onischtschenko's reasoning sounds a lot more harsh:”These wines cannot be consumed, you could rather use them to paint fences.” According to Russian customs, half a million of bottles were seized, of which 90 percent were not up to standard.
Experts of the political circumstances say the reasoning of the Russian customs office are “false”. The problems between Moscow and the political leaders of the former Soviet Republic Moldavia have become a lot worse in the past few years. The ban on imports hits the Moldavian economy hard, since 80 percent of their wine production had been exported to Russia and about a quarter of the Moldavian population works in the wine industry.
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Moldavia has a long wine-growing tradition. Far back, Greek writers told about the wines of the “Scyths” about 2500 years ago. This tribe used to live on the current land of the Republic of Moldavia. Ever since then, grapes had been cultivated in that area and around the current Republic of Moldavia's rivers Nistru and Prut.
Internationally well-known producers, who due to tradition-steeped relationships with the German and Austrian wine industry work with modern standards, are: Pukary, Romanesti, Vitis Hincest, Dionis Club Aurvin, Cricova SA and Arcorex Cricova. The national domain Mileştii Mici is one of the largest of its kind. Among others, it has a rare collection of up to 1,5 million bottles, which, according to the Guinness book of records, is the largest collection in Europe. (aw.yoopress)
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