2 kinds of BiH wine from Vino Manastir Tvrdoš (Trebinje) Vranac 2015, and from Vinogradi Nuić (Ljubuski) Pošip 2015 were presented and sold at 95th World Liquor and Cheese Festival, very famous wine fair in Tokyo, Japan, which was held from 10 to 16 April.
More than 1000 kinds of wine from 28 countries were
exhibited and sold at high-grade department store named DAIMARU.
During the 7 days event, about 25000 bottles of wine
were sold, and it is one of the biggest wine fair in Japan.
The FIPA Country Representative in Japan, Shigehiko
Nishihama supported this fair to introduce the BiH wine to Japanese consumers
directly.
From January 2014, for the first time, BiH started
exporting wine to Japan.
For having these results, Mr Nishihama made important
efforts.
Japanese import company named M & P Corporation
(Tokyo) decided to import the BiH wine from 2 wineries, Vinogradi Nuić and Vino
Manastir Tvrdoš.
Consumers of Japanese market are satisfied with high
quality of the BiH wine and enjoyed tasting special original grape, Vranac and
Pošip.
At this fair, the BiH wine from local original grape,
Blatina and Žilavka were not sold, but M & P Corporation deals with both of
them, Blatina and Žilavka are also popular and well received in Japan, too.
Besides the wine presentation, he also presented culture and tourism of BiH to Japanese
visitors at this fair, which was important contribution to Bosnia and
Herzegovina at the Japanese market.