Georgia Ranked among World’s Top Wine Exporting Countries

Georgia takes 18th place among the world’s top wine exporting countries in 2018 by income generated by sales based on the paper “World’s top 60 wine exporting countries by value in 2018” published by the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE).

The top five wine exporting countries per income from wine sales in 2018 were the following:

• France - $11.056 billion
• Italy – $7.370 billion
• Spain - $3.494 billion
• Australia – $2.160 billion
• Chile - $1.999 billion

As for Georgia’s neighboring countries, Turkey exported $10.1 million worth of wine in 2018, while Armenia exported $9.4 million and Azerbaijan exported $7.7 million.

Russia exported $7.5 million worth of wine in 2018, reports the AAWE.

By B.Alexishvili