Twan Kroon is a Customs Consultant at GRC Customs & Trade Compliance, based in the Netherlands.

Twan Kroon has been importing Portuguese wines to the Netherlands for more than 15 years and is specialised in wines from Portugal. During this period he was also a wine teacher and started teaching wine-food combinations.  After this career, he started working as a customs consultant and specialised in European Customs legislation and regulations in the field of, among other things, export health certificates, classification, origin, AEO authorisation and the Brexit legislation in particular. Two previous co-productions in the field of alcoholic beverages are "Advertising code for Alcoholic Beverages is on its last legs" and "Alcohol industry price war looming". These articles were about self-regulation in the alcoholic beverage sector without the legal obligation to comply with it and the consequences thereof.

Basic information

Name
Twan Kroon
Country
Netherlands

Supported projects

Deception with Port

  • Industry

PORTO - Research by journalists Eelco van Wieringen (Buro Publieke Werken, Holland), Micael Pereira (Expresso Portugal) and Twan Kroon (researcher, Holland) shows that the age of port wines is often incorrect. They commissioned scientific research into the actual age of 10 and 20 year old Tawny ports. In more than half of the cases, the bottles appear to contain too young port.