The bottled wine segment grew moderately on both value (16.83%) and volume (21.57%) comparing to 2015’s import data. Average unit price slightly dropped 3.9%. Below is the top 20 wine export countries (ranked according to import value) to China which accounted for 99.60% and 99.47% of shares in value and volume respectively. *Ukrainian wine, replacing Austrian wine, ranked 18th in the import volume ranking. The top five exporting countries were still France, Australia, Chile

China experienced a moderate and steady growth in imported wine in 2016, value and volume increased 16% and 15% respectively. The breakdown according to categories is: The change in percentage of 2016 vs 2015 is: The traditional imported bottle-wine segment (≤ 2 liter) still enjoyed a healthy growth attached to China’s 6.7% economic (GDP) growth in 2016. Australian bulk wine overtook Spanish’s to be the number two which might be the reason contributing to the value growth (+

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