Georgia Exports 8 Million Bottles of Wine in January-February
TBILISI – Georgia’s National Wine Agency (NWA) reports that in January and February 8,777,275 bottles of wine were exported to 32 countries worldwide, which is 94 percent higher than during the same period last year.
The income from the exported wine amounted to $20.5 million.
“Export has increased to the markets of the European Union, China, the USA and also to traditional markets, where the situation has become stable. This year has started really actively and we hope that the progressive tendency of increased export will be maintained until the end of the year,” stated the Head of National Wine Agency, Giorgi Samanishvili.
The top countries where Georgian wine was imported in January and February are: Russia (5,717,289 bottles), Ukraine (859,756), China (832,552), Kazakhstan (389,040) and Poland (312,650).
Exports of Georgian wine increased in 2017 by:
- United States – 3206 percent (31,740 bottles)
- China – 280 percent (832,552 bottles)
- Canada – 238 percent (24,360 bottles)
- Germany – 151 percent (86,374 bottles)
- Russia – 123 percent (5,717,289 bottles)
- Latvia – 85 percent (183,720 bottles)
- Kazakhstan – 15 percent (389,040 bottles)
- Ukraine – 32 percent (859,756 bottles)
Moreover, according to the (NWA), in January and February around 2,162,305 bottles of brandy were exported to nine countries, 51 percent more than in 2016.
Sales from brandy export this year amounted to $5.2 million, which is 53 percent higher in 2016.
Export of Chacha has also increased by 138 percent. In total, Chacha was sent to 13 counties worldwide. Exported Chacha income amounted to $99 thousand, which is 119 percent higher than the indicator of the January to February period last year.
On the whole, export income for alcoholic drinks this January amounted to $40.1 million, which is about double the numbers from January 2016, when exports reached $20 million.
By Thea Morrison