date:Mar 13, 2013
d by 12%.
While the US remains the biggest buyer, sales to Venezuela leapt 31%.
In 2011 exports to Peru increased by a massive 97% and to Colombia by 74%, the Scotch Whisky Association said.
Brazilians are the fifth most frequent international visitors to the Scotch Whisky Experience after Americans, the French, Germans and Chinese.
In 2009 it took delivery of the record-breaking collection of whisky enthusiast Claive Vidiz from Sao Paulo.
Mr Vidiz spent 35 years scouring the world for rare