The President of Georgia toured the Tbilgvino Factory in Kvareli. Mikheil Saakashvili attended the grape pressing process with employees of the factory. The Head of State expressed interest in the price of grapes and selling conditions for the local farmers.
“I always compare our grapes with those in Italy, Chile, and California, but in order for our wine to become as popular as theirs we will have to spend money. We are now opening a Georgian wine bar in the capital city of the United States. Additionally, we will hand out small bottles of Georgian wine as souvenirs to every tourist so that everybody knows that Georgia is the homeland of wine. Once we are able to popularize our wine the prices will increase, and this is exactly our goal. As for increasing the amount of grapes we need to have more vineyards in addition to new factories” – stated the President of Georgia.
While talking to farmers Mikheil Saakashvili also noted that the high quality of our wine must be kept high in the following years. In conditions of large scale popularization, Georgian wine will finally have its place on the world market.
The new factory was built by cooperation with the International Finance Corporation and a 3 million USD foreign investment, and was opened two days ago.
The factory plans to reproduce 1,500 tons of Saperavi and 1,000 tons of Rkatsiteli grapes this year.