The exports of bottled wine to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the first ten months of last year decreased by 21% compared with the corresponding period of 2014, but the bottled wine exports to the Western countries rose by 24%.

Contacted by IPN, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry communicated that the wine exports to Russia increased by 40% in the period. It should be noted that the export of wine to Russia was gradually resume last year, after a pause of over a year following an import ban imposed by this country.

The exports of bottled wine to the CIS in January – October last year came to over 11 million liters. The largest quantity of wine – over 4 million liters - was exported to Russia. Large amounts were also exported to Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.

The exports of bottled wine to the Western countries in the period grew by 24% to over 15 million liters. The largest quantities of wine were exported to Poland, followed by the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Germany, Lithuania, the UK, Estonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The exports of wine to China rose by 87%, to Japan by 73%, while to the U.S. by 13%.

The exports of non-bottled wine in the first ten months of last year increased by over 10% on the corresponding period a year before, to over 62.5 million liters.