The global financial crunch wasn't enough to devastate Poland's thriving wine industry, reports Parkiet. All the crisis did was slow growth of sales, but analysts now expect those sales to ramp up again.

The wine industry expects Poles to spend some zł.3.1 billion on wine in 2010. That's after the sector managed to hold steady to last year's sales numbers through the first half of this year. Currently, the wine market is on track to grow by 3 percent.

Analysts say that's a much better state of affairs than those of beer and spirits makers, whose sales have dived by several percent in the same time period.

Source: Poland AM