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2019 Top 5 Wine Importers and Exporters
2019 Top 5 Wine Importers
USA is the biggest wine importers with almost 6.000 million US$ (around 5.400 million €) of bottled wine equivalent to almost 1.200 million bottles 75cl.
After the UK in the second place, China is the 3rd largest market (considering bottled wine only, if we include bulk wine Germany is the 3rd largest). Since sparkling wine is not significant, in 2019 China imported almost 2.300 million US$ (around 2.100 million €) of still bottled wines (<2 litres) equivalent to over 620 million bottles 75cl.
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Poggibonsi (Italy), 20 March 2020
In 2019 China imported bottled still wine amounted to 2.29 billion US$ (approximately 2.15 billion €) for over 474 million of litres (approximately 630 million bottles of 75cl), a decrease of -14.26% year-on-year.
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San Gimignano (Italy), 16th February 2020 – Vito Donatiello was invited to Anteprima Vernaccia San Gimignano 2020. The winemakers of the municipality of San Gimignano presented to the public, the trade and the press, the new vintages that will be released in 2020: the Vernaccia di San Gimignano 2019 and the Reserve 2018.
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Source: Organization International of Vine and Wine (OIV)
Burgundy Experience by Château de Pommard wine tasting
Singapore, December 1st 2019 – For the very first time, Château de Pommard visited Singapore. Its event – Burgundy Experience – explored the mosaic of terroirs and compare the multiple expressions of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
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Singapore, 23 November 2019 – In the last few years during visits to wine exhibitions in Asia I have noticed an increase of “new” styles of wine presented: “Appassimento” – dried grapes wine – and “Governo” wine. While I will talk about the former next time, today I would like to focus on the latter.
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