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Monday, 8 August 2016

Egypt looking to revive its wine industry

Reviving Egypt’s wine industry: Egyptian vineyards are trying to win over international wine connoisseurs, Tony Gamal-Gabriel writes for AFP. Jean-Baptiste Ancelot, founder of Wine Explorers, described some of Egypt’s new production as "not necessarily great wines, but wines of immediate pleasure … The whites are the most successful. You can find wines that are both fresh and very fruity — of the exotic fruit type: peach, pineapple, and a little passion fruit." Dutch Ambassador Gerard Steeghs is also quoted in the piece saying when he first arrived in Egypt, he was told: "There is the ‘headache wine’ and there is the wine that is ok. But there is no good wine … [today] they still have the ‘headache wine’, but you also have really good wine.”

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