BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 27
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
Up to 19 million bottles (0.75 l) of wine worth $44 million were exported from Georgia to 52 countries in the first quarter of 2021, Trend reports via the National Wine Agency.
Exports increased to the strategic markets: China - 29 percent (959,040 bottles), Lithuania - 38 percent (245,940 bottles), US - 3 percent (237,878 bottles), Estonia - 22 percent (161,956 bottles), Japan - 11 percent (51,346 bottles) and the UK - 2 percent (117,118 bottles).
Exports are also growing to Canada - 31 percent (67,770 bottles), Kazakhstan- 57 percent (793,114 bottles), Israel - 56 percent (131,626 bottles), Azerbaijan- 66 percent (87,449 bottles), Turkey - 115 percent (30,930 bottles).
In the reporting period, 205 local companies carried out exports of different volumes of Georgian wine.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, both in 2020 and this year, marketing events are mainly held remotely in order to maintain the growth trend of Georgian wine exports.
In the first quarter of 2021 wine exports, 2 percent exceeds the figures for the same period in 2020, however, the value decreased by 5 percent due caused by the price decline in world wine markets due to a pandemic.
It’s worth mentioning that apart from Georgian wine, in the first quarter of 2021 a total of 7.4 million bottles (0.5 l) of brandy and 111 thousand bottles (0.5 l) of chacha were exported from Georgia.
Georgia earned $73 million from exports of wine, chacha, brandy alcohol and bottled brandy that is 4 percent more than in the same period of last year, " the agency says.
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