Friday, December 5, 2025

Two thirds of Georgia's growing wine export goes to Russia

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From a wine festival in Sighnaghi in 2013. (Click on image to read about the festival.) (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia exported 26,872,145 bottles of wine in the first half of 2014. Out of the 34 different countries receiving the wine, two thirds of it went to Russia.

In sheer volume, the almost 27 million bottles, each 0.75 liters, if put together

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Are interruptions in Georgia's wine export economic warfare?

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Levan Davitashvili, head of Georgia’s National Wine Agency. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–There are interruptions in the export of wine from Georgia to Belarus, although formally the export is not stopped.

The sale of wine to Ukraine and Russia is continuing without any restrictions, according to Levan Davitashvili, head

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