Republic of georgia wine industry. Theres an influx of growth in this area said bruce cutler. One of the oldest vines in samegrelo west georgia its name means grapevine growing on a tree and it produces a deep spicy red wine. Biggest export partners for georgia in wine industry are ukraine 473 of wine export kazakhstan 189 and belarus 69.
In 2006 however russian authorities placed an embargo on georgian wine claiming that georgia had been selling counterfeit wine to russia. Georgias wine industry is growing bolstering the north georgia economy by increasing the number of tourists to the area as well as attracting side businesses attracted by the wineries university of georgia faculty told members of the georgia house rural development council on monday. According to 2012 information georgia trades wine with 43 countries selling over 23 million bottles.
Is now georgias 10 th largest export market for wine. Key statistics on the wine industry in the republic of georgia march 2016 during my five day visit to georgia we met with many industry experts who provided the following information. Due in part to this impressive market growth the us.
Georgia strengthened their resolve to remain strong on other markets and by 2009 the country was exporting 75 million bottles to ukraine 2 million bottles to kazakhastan 12 million bottles to belarus. Sue and i were fortunate to be able to extend our visit to the republic of georgia at the conclusion the of united nations world tourism organizations unwto first global conference on wine tourismthe conferences focus was on wine tourism but we wanted to learn more about the georgian wine industry itself. Wine was being produced south of tbilisi georgias capital as early as 8000 years.
When archaeologists last year found traces of winemaking on 8000 year old pottery shards in georgia the tiny former soviet republic claimed the crown as the worlds oldest wine producer. Geography and climate of georgia. Georgia exported 466056 bottles of wine to the united states in 2018 with a total.
Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the worldthe fertile valleys and protective slopes of the transcaucasia were home to grapevine cultivation and neolithic wine production georgian. In tbilisi oda family wine 995 598 900 379 is made by. I have also supplemented this with some data from euromonitor.