Georgia exports 86.2 mln bottles of wine in 2018, record high of last 30 years
Last year Georgia generated $203 million from the sale of wine abroad. Photo: N. Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia exported about 86.2 million bottles of wine to 53 countries in 2018, which is a record high in the last 30 years, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Last year Georgia generated $203 million from the sale of wine abroad.
Revenue increased by 20% from 2017, while the volume of exports increased by 13%, said the Georgian National Wine Agency.
The top 10 countries that imported the most bottles of Georgia wine in 2018 were:
- Russia – 53,682,627 bottles
- Ukraine – 10,687,835 bottles
- China – 6,951,019 bottles
- Kazakhstan – 3,599,143 bottles
- Poland – 3,508,122 bottles
- Latvia – 1,711,078 bottles
- Belarus – 1,606,002
- Estonia – 581,190
- Lithuania – 488,154
- Germany – 483,791
To European countries:
- Switzerland – 378% increase (25,350 bottles)
- Denmark – 111% (17,834 bottles)
- Romania – 100% increase (99,774 bottles)
- Czech Republic – 81% increase (61,908 bottles)
- Italy – 69% increase (17,244 bottles)
To traditional export markets and Asia:
- South Korea - 275% increase (68,124 bottles)
- Turkmenistan -196% increase (197,694 bottles)
- Kyrgyzstan - 63% increase (218,550 bottles)
- Azerbaijan - 40% increase (197,724 bottles)
- Japan - 37% increase (211,883 bottles)
- Poland - 31% increase (3,508,122 bottles)
- Great Britain - 33% increase (105,608 bottles)
- Mongolia - 27% increase (214,398 bottles)
- Ukraine - 26% increase (10,687,835 bottles)
- Russia - 12% increase (53,682,627 bottles)
Last year 284 companies exported wine, said the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Meanwhile, Georgia exported 20 million bottles of Georgian brandy (+9%) and 422,000 bottles of Chacha (+47%) abroad in 2018.
In total, Georgia has sold $306.5 million worth of alcoholic beverages in 2018, including wine, brandy, chacha and others.
Georgia exported about 78 million bottles of wine to 53 countries in January-November of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Georgia exported about 68.3 million bottles of wine to 53 countries in the first 10 months of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency. In January-October of 2018 Georgia generated $162 million from the sale of wine abroad.
Georgia exported about 60 million bottles of wine to 53 countries in the first nine months of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Georgia has exported 51.7 million bottles (0,75L) of wine to 52 countries during January-August, up by 16 percent y/y. However, Russia received the largest share of exports with more than 33 million bottles.
Georgia takes the 19th place among the world’s top 30 wine exporting countries in 2017, says the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE), an educational organisation dedicated to encouraging economic research and analyses and exchanging ideas in wine economics.
Georgia exported about 6.25 million bottles of wine to 24 countries in January 2019, which is a 22% increase compared to the same month of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Georgia exported about 12.2 million bottles of wine to 32 countries in January-February 2019, which is a 13% increase compared to the same period of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency. Last month Georgia generated $30 million from the sale of wine abroad – 21% increase year-on-year.
Georgia exported about 19.4 million bottles of wine to 37 countries in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019, which is a 10% increase compared to the same period of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Georgia’s Agriculture Minister Levan Davitashvili, together with representatives from US and French state agencies and business communities, attended a grape harvest in Kakheti, Georgia’s winemaking region yesterday.
Georgia received 16% more in revenue from the export of wine in the first nine months of 2019 in comparison to the same period last year, the Georgian National Wine Agency reports.
Liu Hui, the Chinese government’s special envoy to Eurasia says that the popularity of Georgian wine is increasing steadily in China, and “taking the situation into account, it is important for more wine to be exported to China from Georgia.”
Georgian wine producers have presented their wines at ‘Georgian wine festival’ taken place in Hong Kong, China on November 15, announced the National Wine Agency of Georgia.
Georgia exported 94 million bottles of wine to 53 countries in 2019, which is nine percent more compared to 2018 and the highest export volume in the history of independent Georgia, says the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Export of Georgian wine to China has decreased by six per cent in February 2019 due to coronavirus outbreak, says the deputy Agriculture Minister Khatia Tsilosani. However, Georgian wine export grows to the European and the US markets, said Tsilosani.
Georgia exported 12.1 million bottles of wine to 39 countries in January-February 2020, which is identical to last year’s data, says the Georgian National Wine Agency. By selling wine abroad Georgia generated $31 million in the first two months of 2020.