…WHILE RUSSIAN RULING PARTY ACTIVISTS UNFOLDING NOISY CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOLDOVAN WINES
30.07.2010
“Moscow, don’t drink Moldovan wines”, “Moldovan wines are good for painting fences”, “You drink Moldovan wine? So, you ruin your health”– such are the slogans used by the activists of the Moscow regional organization of the Yedinaya Rossiya [United Russia] governing party and the party’s youth wing, who are urging people in Moscow streets to refrain from buying Moldovan wines.
Vechernaya Moskva [Evening Moscow] newspaper published an interview with Victor Seliverstov, leader of the party’s Moscow organization, who dismissed whatever political background of the unfolding campaign, caused allegedly by the recent Ghimpu decree on declaring June 28, 1940 as a Day of Soviet occupation.
“Ghimpu made a certainly erroneous decision. And Moldova’s Parliament and Constitutional Court have already reacted to it, and we all know this. But laboratory analyses are made not in one day. These analyses show that up to 80% wines and wine materials coming from Moldova contain forbiddingly high contents of chemical substances – dibutylphthalate and pesticides that are harmful for the human health. So we have decided to warn the public about the danger of using poor-quality Moldovan wines”, said Seliverstrov.
The Moscow City Duma deputy admitted that, “certainly, wine quality problems appear everywhere, and there happen instances of falsification of French and Italian wines as well, but these are rare, individual instances, whereas in the case of Moldovan wines we appear to have a system”.
The newspaper published a list of 45 denominations of Moldovan wines (Cabernet, Sauvignon, Isabella, Chardonnay, Merlot), which, according to the analyses made by Russian chemists in the absence of their Moldovan colleagues, contain dibutylphthalate and pesticides. Of them, 12 wines are made by Lion Gri company, 10 – by Suvorov-Vin, 7 – by DC-Intertrade, 6 – Salcuta, 5 – Grape Valley. Most of these wines were bottled in June 2010.
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