Russian wine buyers taste the good life

More than 500,000 bottles of wine are exported from Orange to Russia in a deal worth over $1 million every year. Robbie Robinson and the team at D’Aquino Group are keen to see that develop and have brought a group of wine buyers and the sommelier from a leading St Petersburg restaurant to Orange to show them where their Wallaby Creek brand calls home. The five young Russians arrived in Orange on Thursday fresh from minus five degrees and snow in Moscow to a sunny spring day. Import manager for Russia’s leading wine and spirit import company, Luding, Natalia Semenets said: “We are looking at different brands and different qualities of wine. We are looking at what the possibilities are. How we can extend our business.”