YEREVAN. – I appreciated local wine in Armenia, German Ambassador Bernhard Matthias Kiesler on Wednesday said at the Armenian National Agrarian University (ANAU).

Kiesler attended the awarding of diplomas to the graduates of the international program of the 2015/2016 academic year at the ANAU Faculty of Agribusiness and Marketing, and the first graduation ceremony of the EVN Wine Academy of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

“[People in] Germany are more familiar with Georgian wine,” said the ambassador. “I knew little about Armenian wines. But with years of work here, I’ve already tasted lots of wine, and there are a number of really good wines among them. It can be said that they have the potential to be exported to the European Union.”

Bernhard Matthias Kiesler said it is a joyful fact that the EVN Wine Academy collaborates with Hochschule Geisenheim University, which is a leading winemaking educational institution in Germany.