Every year in May in China, it is the busiest month in the year to all wine businesses (no matter you are importers, distributors, or anyone who have a stake in the wine industry), it has so many wine fairs (6 that I knew this year) and other wine-related events. To me, I had a lot of travels, meeting many international customers (winery owners) in my workplace or in the fairs, here I apologize to my readers who I didn’t write enough while now I’m refocusing to my reporting

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