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Rioja wines manage to maintain their sales.

Rioja wines manage to keep their sales over 355 million bottles for the third year running. Exports grew by 5.5% and reached a new record, offsetting the decreased of wine consumption in Spain.

The D. O. Rioja has managed to keep its sales over 355 million bottles for the third year in a row, thanks mainly to the continued increasing demand of their wines in the export market, which reached a new record that comes close to hundred million liters, almost four out of ten bottles sold by the Denomination. China continues to have the largest increase, rising to 7th place in the ranking of importers of Rioja, being the UK the leader, because they are the destination for a third of the exports.

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