One of the largest wineries in Russia "Fanagoria" sent Japan the first batch of wine under the contract with Japanese trader Ikemitsu Enterprises, TASS reported on Friday the Deputy Director of export Michael Lelyuk.

"The first batch on the left: this dry red wine, sparkling Brut. Party of about 10 thousand bottles, the average price segment. Wine intended for retail sales and HoReCa. As logistics is very complex, you will get it on the shelves at best in September," he said.

The interviewee said that all the wines will be exported to Japan, made from grown in the Krasnodar region of the grapes. Now preparing to ship the second batch, the range of drinks it will be expanded, and will be added white wines will expand the range of red wines.

According to him, the Japanese appreciated the wine "Fanagoria", because it really goes well with their cuisine, which is based on rice and seafood, the food is minimally processed and it is not customary to put a lot of spices.

As previously reported, the fault of "Phanagoria" in early March, presented at the exposition of the Russian export centre (REC) on the 2018 exhibition FoodEx in Japan. At this time, the company signed a contract with the Japanese trader Ikemitsu Enterprises for $1 million, was planned to put about 250-300 thousand bottles of wine. At the time of signing the contract none of the Russian company did not supply wine to Japan. A few years ago "Phanagoria" has already had experience of cooperation with this country.

According to the administration of the Krasnodar region, "Fanagoria" is one of the largest wineries in Russia located on the Taman Peninsula in the Krasnodar region. Own the vineyards cover an area of more than 2.8 thousand hectares the Company already exports its wines in some foreign countries. Earlier it was reported that in 2017 the company made and bottled 2.18 million decaliters (dal) of alcoholic beverages (a fall of 14.1% by 2016), the increased production of premium wine.