Georgian revenue in wine exports up 16% in comparison to last year
Georgia exported 19.5 million bottles of Georgian brandy (+44%) and 473,200 bottles of Chacha (+65%) abroad in 2019.
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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.
Georgia has so far received $164 million in revenue from the sale of wine abroad in 2019.
The top 10 countries importing the most bottles of Georgian wine in 2019 are:
- Russia – 41,112,235 bottles
- Ukraine – 6,766,841 bottles
- China – 5,334,939 bottles
- Poland – 2,905,371 bottles
- Kazakhstan – 2,477,358 bottles
- Belarus – 1,008,888 bottles
- Latvia – 988,122 bottles
- US – 533,206 bottles
- Lithuania – 503,831 bottles
- Estonia – 499,736 bottles
To European countries:
- UK – 40 % increase (93,067 bottles)
- The Netherlands – 21% increase (73,078 bottles)
- Czech Republic – 102% increase (62,700 bottles)
- Sweden – 397% increase (55,506 bottles)
Meanwhile, Georgia exported 19.5 million bottles of Georgian brandy (+44%) and 473,200 bottles of Chacha (+65%) abroad in 2019.
Export revenue from Chacha reached $1.3 million, which is 54% higher than 2018.
In total, Georgia has sold $236 million worth of alcoholic beverages in the first nine months of 2019, including wine, brandy, Chacha and others.
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 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 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.
Georgia exported 17.7 million bottles of wine to 43 countries in the first quarter of 2018, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency. In January-March 2018 Georgia generated about $40.47 million from the sale of wine abroad.
The wine-making sector is giving new energy to job creation and strengthening Georgian business, announced Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia at a meeting with wine-makers earlier today.
Georgian qvevri wine producers are participating in the international artisan wine fair ‘Raw Wine’ currently taking place in New York, USA on October 27-28.
Georgian wine was presented at Ghvino Forum of America, 2019 which recently took place in Boston, USA on October 27-29.
In January-October 2019, Georgia exported 75.6 million bottles of wine to 53 countries around the world, which is an increase of 11 per cent compared to the same period of last year, announces the National Wine Agency of Georgia.