YEREVAN. – This year Armenian brandy yielded its place to the Azerbaijani one in the Russian market; it was consumed less and occupied second place, Yerkir daily writes. 

“This fact is surprising, since it is known that there are few vineyards in Azerbaijan. And even in Azerbaijan SSR, the vineyards were primarily centralized in Artsakh [Karabakh] and the liberated territories. Furthermore, according to wine and brandy makers, Azerbaijani brandy is low quality. The brandy’s alcohol is produced through distillation of raisins imported from Iran and local wheat.        

There is information that Azerbaijan is resorting  to deception, as it is mixing into its ‘raisin-wheat’ alcohol the brandy alcohol imported from Spain. And this is what it exports to Russia as Azerbaijani brandy.

By the way, according to winemakers, the Azerbaijanis were never known for vodka and wine production. What is more, the Azerbaijani wine, as such, does not exist,” Yerkir writes.