(FocusNewsAgency) - “Bulgarian wine is in the world’s top 5 in terms of quality,” said Eng. Krasimir Koev, head of the Executive Agency on Vine and Wine, speaking in an interview with FOCUS News Agency about the European Day of Wine Tourism, which is held for the first time in Bulgaria's second-biggest city of Plovdiv.

“In terms of the amount of produced wine, we are in the world’s top 20. In terms of the quality of produced wines, we are in the world’s top 5. This is not simply a statement or opinion of mine but is based on all 370 awards, 150 of which gold ones, that our wines won at world competitions last year and the year before last year,” Koev commented.

In his words, this best attests to the fact foreigners taste our wine and have a high opinion of it in blind tasting without knowing where it was produced.

“Due to the new vineyards and new technologies in wineries we have not only maintained a stable quality over the past years but it has increased each year,” the specialist was explicit.