The wine industry is calling for stricter controls on the practice of falsely labeling foreign wines as Greek

In their announcement, producers of the wine sector are calling for intensified controls and to crack down on profiteering, the shadow economy and the misleading of the consumer by the Greekization of imported wines. The expected low-volume Greek wine production at 1,378,706 hl (137,870 tn) according to DAOK estimates and the certainty of finalizing a low volume of stocks on July 31, deprive the market of significant quantities of wine, a fact that has already initiated import procedures ( red and white) wines, mainly from Italy aimed at the domestic market and their distribution as wines of Greek origin. The risk inherent in wine imports is not only the labeling with which they will be made available to the Greek consumer, but the low prices at which they are delivered to the wineries (0.55 €/lt red wines and 0.63 €/lt white wines), prices which according to information from KEOSOE, are due to the fact that the wines in question come from Third Countries (mainly Chile) and are ...