BiH wine were presented at famous fair in Tokyo, Japan

2 kinds of BiH wine from Vino Manastir Tvrdoš (Trebinje) Vranac 2015, and from Vinogradi Nuić (Ljubuski) Pošip 2015 were presented and sold at 95th World Liquor and Cheese Festival, very famous wine fair in Tokyo, Japan, which was held from 10 to 16 April. 

More than 1000 kinds of wine from 28 countries were exhibited and sold at high-grade department store named DAIMARU.

During the 7 days event, about 25000 bottles of wine were sold, and it is one of the biggest wine fair in Japan.

The FIPA Country Representative in Japan, Shigehiko Nishihama supported this fair to introduce the BiH wine to Japanese consumers directly.

From January 2014, for the first time, BiH started exporting wine to Japan.

For having these results, Mr Nishihama made important efforts.

Japanese import company named M & P Corporation (Tokyo) decided to import the BiH wine from 2 wineries, Vinogradi Nuić and Vino Manastir Tvrdoš.

Consumers of Japanese market are satisfied with high quality of the BiH wine and enjoyed tasting special original grape, Vranac and Pošip.

At this fair, the BiH wine from local original grape, Blatina and Žilavka were not sold, but M & P Corporation deals with both of them, Blatina and Žilavka are also popular and well received in Japan, too.

Besides the wine presentation, he also presented  culture and tourism of BiH to Japanese visitors at this fair, which was important contribution to Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Japanese market.