4 kinds of BiH wine from Vino Manastir Tvrdoš (Trebinje) Vranac, Hum Cabernet Sauvignon and from Vinogradi Nuić (Ljubuški) Blatina Quality, Žilavka Quality were presented and sold at 89th World Liquor and Cheese Festival, very famous wine fair in Tokyo, which was held from 6 to 12 April. More than 900 kinds of wine from the world were exhibited and sold at high-grade department store named DAIMARU, same like Harrods in London, U.K.
Japanese consumers enjoyed tasting BiH wine and
they were very surprised with its high quality, especially, Vino Manastir Tvrdoš
Vranac and Vinogradi Nuić Blatina Quality.
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
from Tokyo decided to import total 9 kinds of the BiH wine (6 Red, 3 White) from
2 wineries Vinograd Nuić and Vino Manastir Tvrdoš. These 9 kinds of the BiH
wine are being sold at stores and on the Web-site shopping mall in Japan, for
example, as follows; http://item.rakuten.co.jp/chichukai/c/0000000358/
Consumers of Japanese market are satisfied with
high quality of BiH wine and enjoyed tasting special original grape, Blatina, Žilavka
and Vranac.
The FIPA Country Representative in Japan had
good relations with local wineries more than 10 years. He visited their wineries
and promoted the quality of BiH wine to Japanese. It takes long years but
finally he succeeded to find trustworthy reliable Japanese importer for BiH
wine.