A volume of 15 to 17 million decaliters of wine are to be produced from the 2018 grape harvest. This is less than last year, when there were produced 18 million decaliters of wine. The forecasts were made by the director of the National Office of Vine and Wine Gheorghe Arpentin in a national conference on August 23, IPN reports.
According to Gheorghe Arpentin, wineries’ stores on July 31, 2018 consisted of 15 million decaliters of wine. Since the previous harvest, Moldova exported 14.3 million decaliters of wine, up 3% compared with the previous crop. The incomes came to 2.3 billion lei, an increase of 5.5% on 2016.
As regards the export markets, Gheorghe Arpentin said wine exports to Poland represented 15%, to Romania and the Czech Republic by 13%, to the Russian Federation 12%, to China 10% and to other states less than 10%.
Liliana Dascaliuc, head of the Wine Policy and Regulation Service of the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment, said the grape harvest this year is projected to total 460,000 tonnes. The harvest of table grapes will be 130,000 tonnes, of wine sorts – 290,000, while of sorts like Isabella – 40,000 tonnes.
