For The Love Of Port

I have no doubt about the numbers from the IVDP, but mine is taken from the russian customs' audit on which I rely more.
I think you're right, data from secondary import is not included into the table of the IVDP.

unfortunatelly, i don't have numbers before 2005. I guess it could even more impressive.

well, many russians tend to sweet wines since they had drunk a lot of sweet (and fortified) and off-dry wines from Georgia, Moldova and the Crimea during the Soviet times. After Soviet Union collapsed people wanted to get the same product from these regions but the quality still seems to be poor. We...

to be exact:

import of Port to Russia:
2005 - 179 719 bottles
2006 - 208 286 btls.
2007 - 357 247 btls.
2008 - 377 333 btls.

Thank you guys! really didn't know I was the first from Russia here [cheers.gif] actually, the market is quite young for the trade of Port. First shipments began in the early 90s but the real growth was in 2002-2007, before that the market was loaded with native port-like wines from the Crimea. It h...

I'm in despair to get what does really the indication of age on labels of tawny mean. There's always an explanation like "average age of the blend" or "approximation", but is there any strict rule in blending of aged tawnies? Or it's just a style of port to be checked by the IVDP...