Caucasian Bouquet

Since Early 2009, CBDN has been engaging in promoting cooperation with wine producers across the South Caucasus. CBDN has held consultations with Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Karabakhi and Abkhaz wine-producers with a view of promoting professional dialogue and sectoral regional cooperation.

Caucasian Bouquet Label

As the first project activity – a meeting of regional coordinators and experts was held between May 30 and June 02 2009 in Batumi. Ten participants of the meeting also took part in Batumi wine festival. During the meeting the details of the project implementation was discussed, project activities, plan and strategy were developed.

Two workshops were held: the first workshop for Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian winemakers was held in Tbilisi in May 2009. Apart from identifying participating factories and producers for the project, the event also decided that the process would aim at creating a common Caucasian marketing label. The second workshop aimed at choosing Armenian, Karabakhi and Azerbaijani participating wines, as well as deciding on the marketing label.

The selection of the wine factories were based on various criteria: two small factories were selected working with old equipments and traditional technologies, two big factories working with the modern equipments and traditional technologies and one modern factory, etc. Forteen new wine names – wines blending were created using wine materials of different years made of more than twelve grape sorts. Then the designers developed the wine label called “Caucasian Bouquet”.