Jan.-Sept. 2021: Georgian wine export up 12%
By selling wine abroad Georgia generated $168 million. Revenues increased by 11% year-on-year. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Georgia exported 72.5 million bottles of wine to 60 countries in January-September 2021, which is an increase of 12% compared to the same period of 2020, says the Georgian National Wine Agency.
By selling wine abroad Georgia generated $168 million. Revenues increased by 11% year-on-year.
The top five countries that imported Georgian wine in January-September 2021 were:
- Russia – 43,350,901 bottles (+7%)
- Ukraine – 8,609,575 bottles (+8%)
- Poland – 4,156,777 bottles (+24%)
- China – 3,961,484 bottles (+16%)
- Kazakhstan – 2,805,598 bottles (+32%)
Exports of Georgian wine increased to these strategic markets countries:
- UK – 178% increase (513,724 bottles)
- Lithuania - 36% increase (744,600 bottles)
- US - 18% increase (807,413 bottles)
- Latvia - 2% increase (1,218,075 bottles)
Exports of Georgian wine also increased to the following countries:
- Czechia - 202% increase (112,356 bottles)
- Turkey – 209% increase (93,330 bottles)
- Mongolia – 146% increase (362,370 bottles)
- Canada – 88% increase (261,538 bottles)
- Sweden – 59% increase (96,400 bottles)
- Israel – 28% increase (304,827 bottles)
- Azerbaijan – 21% increase (162,527 bottles)
- France – 7% increase (56,800 bottles)
In total 397 companies exported wine abroad in the reporting period.
Meanwhile, Georgia exported 25.5 million bottles of Georgian brandy (+17%) and 660,000 bottles of chacha (+97%) abroad in the first eight months of 2021.
In total, Georgia has sold $270 million worth of alcoholic beverages (+15%) in the reporting period, including wine, brandy, chacha and others.
The world's first Wine Blockchain Consortium has been established in Georgia through a partnership between the Georgian National Wine Agency and Norway-based blockchain trading platform WiV Technology. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said that Georgia as the homeland of wine, really deserves to be one of the first countries in the world to introduce technological innovations in the development of the wine industry.
Georgia exported 65 million bottles of wine to 59 countries in January-August 2021, which is an increase of 19% compared to the same period of 2020, says the Georgian National Wine Agency. By selling wine abroad Georgia generated $145 million. Revenues increased by 13% year-on-year. Meanwhile, Georgia exported 22 million bottles of Georgian brandy (+21%) and 570,000 bottles of chacha (+115%) abroad in the first eight months of 2021.
The Government of Georgia intends to assist in the generation of $1 billion from wine exports in the next 10 years, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced at a meeting with winemakers held at Chateau Zegaani, in Kakheti region today.
Julie Peterson, Managing Partner of US marketing company Marq Energie Consulting, has met Georgian wine producers in the United States to introduce them to the characteristics of the US market and help them create strategies for exporting wine to the US.