Georgia became the chair country of the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG)
The chairmanship of the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) was handed over from the United States of America to Georgia for one year at the meeting of the mentioned organization held in Brussels. Georgia will start exercising the powers of WWTG chairmanship from May 1 of this year.
"This is another recognition of Georgia as a wine producing country, which will contribute to the promotion and export growth of Georgian wine, including among the member countries of this group. For one year, Georgia will lead and coordinate the work of the group. In November of current year, a meeting of representatives of the WWTG countries will be held in Georgia, where important issues of the wine industry will be discussed", said the chairman of the National Wine Agency, Levan Mekhuzla, who participated in the annual meeting of the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) held in capital of Belgium.
The World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) is an association of wine producing countries, and its members together with Georgia include USA, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and Uruguay. The main objective of the organization is to facilitate trade in wine, to promote international trade in wine by sharing information and implementing joint actions for removing trade barriers.
"On behalf of the wine industry of the United States of America, we are pleased that Georgia is becoming the chair country of the World Wine Trade Group. Together with other partner countries, we are working on changing wine labeling practices, waste management, sustainable development and other initiatives important to the wine industry in the EU. Since I have already visited Georgia, I am well aw
are of Georgian hospitality. I congratulate the Georgian team on the chairmanship of WWTG", said Katerina Bedard, a representative of the USA wine industry ( California Wine University).
It should be noted that the chairmanship of the World Wine Trade Group changes every year on the principle of rotation. Georgia chaired WWTG in 2014. During the mentioned period, such important issues were agreed on and documents were developed, which simplify the wine trade procedures between the member countries of this organization. The World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) evaluated Georgia's one-year chairmanship positively. The document adopted at the WWTG plenary meeting held in Tbilisi in August 2014, on the analytical methodology and regulatory limitations of wine composition and potential contaminants, is still, up to this day called the "Tbilisi Application” in the organization.