The Wine Importers from China are visiting Qartli and Kakheti
Debra Meiburg, chief of the National Wine Agency's contractor company "Meiburg Wine Media" and 8-men group of wine importers from China are visiting Georgia.
Within the wine tour, our guests were able to visit wine factories is Qartli and Kakheti: "Chateau Mukhrani, "Iago's Wine", "Teleda/Orgo", "Shumi Winery", "Vaziani Winery", "Kakhuri Gvinis Marani", "GWS", "Teliani Valley", "Friends Cellar" , "Papari Valley", "Badagoni", "Pheasant's Tears", "Vazisubani Estate” and "Lukasi Winery", were familiarized to the Qvevri making process by Zaza Kbilashvili.
There was also held wine tasting in Tbilisi. Over 100 varieties of wine of 27 different wine companies were tasted.
According to Debra Meiburg, some of the members of the group are wine importers specialized in producing unique wine sorts.
"The past experience showed, that conducting such activities are very successful. For instance, the Georgian wine has moved from position 18 to position 9 on the China's wine market within the last 4 years. We all are very exited with the success of Georgian wine on the Asian wine market. Now it's our mission to ensure the popularization of the Georgian wine not only among the wine importers, but among the wine consumers as well. Hence, we will do our best in order to focus more wine consumer's interests on Georgian wine," mentioned master of wine .
China is positioned as number 3 among the Georgian wine exporter countries. Over 8 million bottle of Georgian wine is already exported from Georgia to China within the last 8 month.