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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 7, ARMENPRESS. It has been a long time since Avag Harutyunyan is engaged in wine-making, but he always smiles while remembering his first steps in this realm. The Harutyunyan's family has been engaged in wine-making since 1850, when his great grandmother named Maran established a pomegranate garden and built a small site for making wine. The Chairman of Union of Armenian Winemakers Avag Harutyunyan stated: "The garden was destroyed in 1930s. In future, when I was about to decide my occupation, my parents compelled me to choose wine-making. I was not aware of the fact that wine-making was also the occupation of my ancestors."
Notwithstanding a fatal accident made him reconsider his attitude towards his future profession. Among other things Avag Harutyunyan noted: "Once I occasionally appeared in an event, which turned out to be fatal in my life. A reporter confused me with an official engaged in wine-making, and dedicated a whole article to me as if I was a "prominent wine-make". At that time I cheated the reporter, but afterwards I really wanted to be involved in wine-making. And only after I have learnt about my ancestors' occupations."