Betting big on its Loire Valley’s Bouvet Ladubay wine, United Spirits is planning to double its wine production in the next three to four years. The winery, which United Spirits had earlier acquired from French champagne major Taittinger, will look at producing eight million bottles of wine against four million bottles at present.

Abhay Kewadkar, Chief Wine Maker and Business Head (wines) and Director of Four Seasons Wines Ltd, United Spirits said, “We are trying to expand in Loire Valley, France. We have already completed modernisation of the winery and expansion in volumes will follow. The plan is to almost double the output in next three to four years.” Loire Valley in France produces the Bouvet Ladubay label of wine and exports 70 per cent of its product to over 36 countries.

According to a report in Financial Express, United Breweries is also planning to scale up capacity of its Four Seasons Winery at Baramati in Maharashtra to 12 million bottles from its current two million bottles. “A project has been designed to cater a tankage capacity of one million cases (twelve million bottles).