PLOVDIV, Bulgaria (AFP) — Bulgarian winemakers are hoping that a move upmarket will win them new customers in Europe and as experts warn that sales to Russia, traditionally their biggest market, are in decline. In communist times, Bulgaria used to export some five million hectolitres of wine each year to the Soviet Union, or nearly all of the wine it produced. - Since then, Bulgaria's wine production has shrunk to 1.38 million hectolitres annually, of which it exports as much as 80 percent.
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