Moldovan wine presented in USA, Belgium

Chisinau, 25 June /MOLDPRES/- Ten Moldovan winemakers attended a business meeting with representatives of several distribution companies in Belgium. At the same time, distributors of Chicago and New York showed interest in Moldovan Wine after they were invited to a Moldovan wine tasting organized by eight wine companies in our country.

Director of the National Vine and Wine Office Gheorghe Arpentin said that both Belgium and the USA are important export markets for Moldovan Wine. "For several years, five wine companies are present with their products on the store shelves in Brussels, and demand is growing. Therefore, we consider it appropriate to organize more direct meetings between Moldovan winemakers and local distributors, HoReCa representatives, Belgian journalists to let them know the wine of Moldova, and to establish collaboration. At the same time, we plan to be more active on the US market, which ranks 1st after the wine consumed, with about 70 billion dollars over the past year," Arpentin said.

The Brussels event gathered dozens of distributors, as well as journalists and bloggers writing for magazines and specialized portals. According to statistics, in the first 4 months of 2019, over 15,000 liters of wine were exported to Belgium, and during the previous year wine companies sold about 20,000 liters of wine on this market. Moldovan winemakers have managed to make their products known to American businessmen - the top management of importing and distributing quality wines, which also have a wide sales network at national and regional level.

Statistics show that in the first four months of this year, wine companies exported wines worth over 9.6 million lei / over 530 thousand US dollars to the US market. In 2018, the exports exceeded 38 million lei. Moldovan wine is present on the US market since 2015.