Six Moldovan wine companies to pass Rosspotrebnadzor testing

Six more companies are to pass the testing for exporting their products to the Russian Federation. Currently, 36 companies from Moldova have the right to export to Russia and 12 more could join them by the end of the year, according to the data Info-Prim Neo was given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA). The companies that want to export wine and other alcoholic beverages to Russia must submit their file to MAIA and afterwards it will be forwarded to Russia’s Rosspotrebnadzor (Federal service on customers' rights protection and human well-being monitoring). After a certain time, a team of Russian experts visit the applicant company and decide whether to allow the export or not. In the first five months of this year, the 36 exporting companies’ sales of wine and other alcoholic drinks in Russia reached $17 million. The Ministry’s specialists claim there is a slight growth compared to the previous years. Moldova exports alcoholic drinks in many states. Moldovan wine is especially popular in Georgia. Specialists say that Moldovan wine has higher acidity and the Georgians like it better than their own, which is sweeter. Almost all of the CIS and EU countries import alcoholic beverages from Moldova. Currently, Moldovan wine is also exported to China, Japan, Canada, USA, Serbia, Albania, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brazil and Mongolia. Moldovan alcoholic drinks reach even some African countries, including Nigeria.