Hong Kong，the most profitable market for French wine

FRENCH bottled wine exports to the UK recovered in calendar 2010 after a drop in 2009, though the unit price fell by over 10%. The US remains the more profitable of the two destination for French wine in terms of unit price, according to GTIS data - but neither come close to Hong Kong.

While the US is only the fifth biggest export market for bottled French wine in terms of volume, (taking 71.4 million litres in 2010, up 7% on 2009), it is the second biggest by value at USD566 million. This is, however, still some way off the most important market for French wine by value, the UK, which took USD866 million in 2010.