Few weeks before Vinexpo official starting time (Bordeaux, June 16th-20th) we already have the first statistic data regarding wine & spirits.
The first information are about spirits market: 2012 was a great year for the Made in Italy spirits export.
Based on Spirits Europe research, alcoholic beverages export made in Europe growth of 20% in value in the past year skipping from 8,5 to 10,2 billions euro.
Spirits represent the first exported food products, in value, for European Community. The major export markets for this food products are USA (3,3 billions euro), Singapore (1 billion euro) and Russia.
Russia represent the fast growing market with an export selling quote of 749 billions euro.
This particular growth is pull above all to whisky that alone represent 44% of the export follow by cognac (26%) and vodka (12%).
In developing markets the biggest growth is represent by China with +19% and in general by Asian South-East with +25%
