Georgia exported record 94 mln bottles of wine in 2019
Georgia exported record 94 mln bottles of wine in 2019. Photo: National Wine Agency of Georgia.
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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.
Last year Georgia generated $240 million from the sale of wine abroad, which is 17% more compared to 2018.
The volume of exports increased to strategic markets of Georgian wines:
- Poland – 4,114,972 bottles (17% increase)
- China – 7,089,259 bottles (2% increase)
- United States – 678,148 bottles (48% increase)
- United Kingdom – 168, 307 bottles (60% increase)
To traditional export markets and Asia:
- Lithuania – 708,408 bottles (45% increase)
- Germany – 671,453 bottles (40% increase)
- Belarus – 2, 787,065 bottles (74% increase)
- Israel – 324,700 bottles (80% increase)
- Estonia – 693,248 bottles (20% increase)
- Russia – 58,384,540 bottles (9% increase)
- Moldova - 625, 724 bottles (87% increase)
- Netherlands – 96,464 bottles (17% increase)
- Czech Republic – 92,214 bottles (34% increase)
- Bulgaria – 34,734 bottles (30% increase)
- Mongolia – 297,576 bottles (40% increase)
Last year 341 companies exported wine, said the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Meanwhile, Georgia exported 31.6 million (+58%) bottles of Georgian brandy and 625,000 bottles of Chacha (+48%) abroad in 2019.
Kindzmarauli was the most in demand beverage among the Protected Appellation Wines last year. Georgia exported 17,418,683 bottles of Kindzmarauli in 2019.
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).
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 76.7 million bottles of wine to 53 countries in 2017 – a record number of wine in the past 30 years, announces the Georgian National Wine Agency.
Georgia exported more than 87 per cent of its domestic export (export of locally produced goods and services, including those of foreign origin that have been substantially changed through local processing) in 2019 to countries with which it has a free trade agreement, said Deputy Minister of Economy Genadi Arveladze at the meeting with the media representatives on DCFTA matters.
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.
The opportunities for Georgian wine on the Chinese market were discussed in the format of an online dialogue in the framework of the Silk Road project 'One Belt-One Road’ on May 6, 2020.
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A Georgian wine degustation event was held in Munich, Germany on October 30, says the National Wine Agency of Georgia.
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Despite the pandemic, domestic exports hit historic high in Georgia in the first 10 months of 2020, says the Ministry of Economy.
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In order to raise awareness and increase the export of Georgian wine to Germany the Georgian wine advertising campaign will be strengthened in Germany this year using various media platforms.
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