company – Marne – Champagne
Posted at 11:20 AM
Russia consumes less than 2 million bottles each year. (© Weekly Friday)
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Russia has established a moratorium which suspends, until December 31, its controversial wine law, promulgated on July 2 by Vladimir Putin. This prohibits the mention “shampanskoye” in Cyrillic on the back labels of champagne bottles, reserving it only for sparkling wines made from Russian grapes. A law that had triggered a diplomatic and commercial mini-crisis since the Champagne Committee had ordered the profession to stop its shipments to Russia. The embargo was finally lifted on September 15, a compromise having been found: the back-label of the Champagne passes would clearly indicate “sparkling wine”, but it would be specified “produced with grapes from Champagne, France”. It was the Minister for Foreign Trade, Franck Riester, who announced this moratorium, adding: “This does not solve everything, and we are determined to definitively move the issue forward during this working period which is opening.” “Russia, a large country (145 million inhabitants), but a modest consumer of bubbles (1.9 million bottles shipped in 2020, 15th foreign market), does not recognize or protect the appellation champagne. like the United States for example.
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