The Moldovan wines are likely to reach Japan. A mission of Japanese businesspeople paid a three-day working visit to Moldova with the aim of familiarizing themselves with and promoting the Moldovan wines. One of the businessmen expressed his wish to open a restaurant with Moldovan traditional food and drinks in Tokyo in the near future. The Moldovan wines will also appear in an important guidebook of wines of the region, IPN reports.

Makoto Endo, the representative of the Japan Wine Importers’ Association, who runs a number of restaurants and wine bars and is the co-author of Japan Winery Guide, Basic Glossary of Essential Wine Words, and Wine Dictionary, said the Moldovan wines have a fantastic aroma, similar to the aroma of the wines of the New World. On the other hand, their taste is like that of the wines of the Old World, as those of France for example. Thus, the Moldovan wines combine two styles from different worlds and these elements offer very good export prospects.

The Japanese businessmen visited a number of vineries. The visit was organized by the Embassy of Moldova in Tokyo. It is already the fourth delegation of the kind interested in the import of Moldovan wines.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in January-June this year Moldova exported goods and services to the value of US$288 million to Japan.