Azerbaijan demonstrates its wine tourism opportunities in Italy

The ongoing Slow Wine fair in Bologna, Italy, presents the traditions of community-based winemaking in Azerbaijan, Report informs, citing the State Tourism Agency of Azerbaijan.

The exhibition, where Azerbaijan is represented for the second time, promotes the opportunities of gastrotourism and wine tourism and introduces biodiversity products, which are examples of national production, to guests for wine tasting.

Azerbaijan is represented at the fair by Khindogni wines and other community-based wines, made from grape varieties of the same name collected from the Tugh village of the Khojavand district, which are produced in accordance with the requirements of Slow Wine.

More than 1,000 winemakers and representatives of wineries, as well as more than 10,000 visitors, are expected to participate in the exhibition, which will end today.

As part of the Slow Food movement, Slow Wine promotes cultural and biological diversity, the preservation of traditions based on reducing environmental impacts, sustainable production and agroecological practices, based on the characteristics of the unique grape varieties of each wine region.