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Issue 759 - November 10th - 14th 2025 - Expressly created for 3700 wine lovers,
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| | | Italian wine exports continue to slow. ISTAT data, analyzed by WineNews and updated in August 2025, show a negative verdict of -1.9% in value (from -0.9% in July) compared to the first eight months of 2024, to €5 billion, recovering somewhat in volume but remaining in negative territory (-2.9% compared to -3.4% in July), at 1.37 billion liters. The data from the United States is decisive, where exports have slowed significantly: €92.5 million in August 2025 compared to €132.4 million in August 2024, with a drop of -30.1%. In the first eight months of the year, we are at €1.21 billion (-3.2% on the same period in 2024) and 228.3 million liters (-2.2%). | |
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| | Global wine production in 2025 is estimated at between 228 and 235 million hectoliters, with an intermediate projection of 232 million hectoliters. This represents a recovery (+3%) compared to the low volumes of 2024, although this year’s harvest estimate remains about 7% below the five-year average. This is according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), which has published its first annual estimates of global wine production for 2025. Italy remains the world's largest wine producer (47.4 million hectoliters, +8% on 2024), ahead of France (35.9 million hectoliters, -1%) and Spain (29.4 million hectoliters, -1.4%). The United States ranks fourth (21.7 million hectoliters, +3%), while Australia regains fifth place in the world ranking of producers (11.6 million hectoliters, +11%), ahead of Argentina (10.7 million hectoliters, -1%), which, in sixth place, is the largest producer in South America and ahead of South Africa (10.2 million hectoliters, +16%), Chile (8.4 million hectoliters, -10%), Germany (7.3 million hectoliters, -6%) and Portugal in 10th place (6.2 million hectoliters, -11%). The OIV pointed out that, “despite regional contrasts, the world wine market should remain substantially balanced, as limited production growth will help stabilize stocks in a context of weakening demand and continuing trade uncertainties”. In the European Union (where the 2025 harvest is estimated at 140 million hectoliters), production increased modestly compared to 2024 (+2%), but is well below the five-year average (-8%). The Old Continent continues to be characterized by high climatic variability, while in the rest of the northern hemisphere, explains the OIV, the results have been mixed. The United States, among others, recorded only a partial recovery from the low 2024 harvest (+3%, but -9% is the five-year average). The southern hemisphere, on the other hand, totaled 49 million hectoliters and recorded a recovery from 2024 (+7%, but -5% over the five-year period). | |
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| | The path to reviving the long-term competitiveness of Italian wine lies in a strategy based on “promotion, innovation, and conscious consumption, while defending the strategic role of the sector in the future CAP post-2027”. This is according to Confcooperative Fedagripesca, which represents 264 wineries and consortia worth over €5 billion and accounting for around 40% of national production, at the conference “Competitiveness and the future of Italian wine”. “The future of Italian wine”, said Luca Rigotti, president of Confcooperative’s Wine Sector, “will depend on our ability to develop targeted policies, not on chasing emergencies”. According to Raffaele Drei, president of Confcooperative Fedagripesca, “Italian wine cannot resign itself to “happy degrowth” or be marginalized in the CAP reform”. | |
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| | | There is no doubt that the Italian and global wine market is in difficulty, but there is also no doubt that the sector in Italy has enjoyed a decade (2014-2024) of steady growth, with exports doubling to reach a record €8.1 billion in 2024. While some critical elements are structural and others are contingent, such as US tariffs (the real effects of which, according to everyone, will only be truly measurable in 2026 with the new price lists), the recipe for overcoming the impasse and reviving consumption is always the same: working together, investing in promotion and communication (as the Ministry of Agriculture and ICE will do with a campaign on Rai networks, and elsewhere, on the cultural value of wine consumption), and opening up new markets without abandoning established ones. Messages from the conference organized by the Leonardo Committee - Italia Quality Committee at Ca’ del Bosco, owned by the Zanella family and the Herita Marzotto Wine Estates group of the Marzotto family, with, among others, the leaders of ICE, Federvini, Unione Italiana Vini - Uiv, Coldiretti, and representatives of European and Italian institutions, including Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, and the survey “Italian wine between excellence and global challenges” by Wine Monitor - Nomisma (in depth). | |
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| | | Stocks of Italian wine remain high, with the 2025 harvest now complete. According to the new report by “Cantina Italia”, compiled by the ICQRF, Italian wineries had 44.5 million hectoliters of wine in stock as of October 31, 2025, up 23.8% from September 30, 2025, and up 5.2% from October 31, 2024. Added to this are 14.3 million hectoliters of must and 14.3 million hectoliters of new wine still fermenting (Vnaif). 62.1% of the wine is held in the northern regions, mainly in Veneto. | |
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| | From a minimum of €12,000 per hectare to purchase a vineyard in the Cannonau dell'Ogliastra area of Sardinia (where the maximum is €18,000 per hectare) to €2.3 million per hectare in the Barolo DOCG area (where prices start at €300,000), passing through the DOC areas of Lake Caldaro in South Tyrol (from €600,000 to €1.1 million per hectare), Bolgheri DOC (from €250,000 to €1 million per hectare), also in Tuscany, Montalcino and its vineyards in Brunello di Montalcino (ranging from €250,000 to €1 million per hectare); and, again, passing through the Valdobbiadene DOCG vineyards (where the range is from €300,000 to €500,000 per hectare), and those north of Trento (from €220,000 to €500,000 per hectare). Here are the highlights of the CREA survey on “Land market trends in Italy in 2024” (in depth). | |
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| | Castello di Monsanto’s Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Vigna Il Poggio 2020 is the wine of the year, ranked No. 1 in the “Vinous Top 100 Wines” 2025, the ranking published by critic Antonio Galloni’s magazine. The list includes a total of 22 Italian wineries, from Terre Nere to Produttori del Barbaresco, from Lodali to Castello di Ama, from Elio Grasso to Canalicchio di Sopra - Ripaccioli, from Ronco del Gnemiz to Romano dal Forno, from Agricola Punica to G.B. Burlotto, from Petrolo to Elena Fucci, from Tenuta di Trinoro to Borgo del Tiglio, to Torre dei Beati. | |
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