CEO of Massandra: Crimean wine in Italy was not arrested, but drank

The CEO of Massandra Yanina Pavlenko said that at the Vinitaly-2017 exhibition in Italy, the arrested Crimean wine was almost everything was drunk by the end of the second day of the event, RNS reports .

“Crimea really participated in an exhibition of wine in Italy in the general stand of the Russian Federation. The popularity of Crimean wines was so high that yesterday by dinner almost all Crimean wines, most of them, ended. And we can safely say that the Crimean stand was probably the most popular at this exhibition in Italy, ”Pavlenko said.

According to her, Massandra products were also presented at the exhibition.

Earlier, the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that at the International Wine Exhibition in Italy, police arrested Crimean products.

The representative of ASTI Group, the organizer of the Russian exhibition at the exhibition in Verona - Narin Bagmanan, confirmed this information, explaining that the exhibition of Russian winemakers is working in normal mode, but the guilt of the Crimean and Sevastopol manufacturers were removed from the main stand.