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Issue 729 - April 14th - 18th 2025 - Expressly created for 3692 wine lovers,
professionals and opinion leaders from all over the world | |
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| | | The tricolor, symbol of Italy, ends up on the bands of denomination wines. As already announced in recent days, the Italian flag, starting on the “National Day of Made in Italy”, will appear on the State marks for Docg and Doc wines, produced by the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. According to which “the new marks will more effectively protect Italian wines from fakes thanks to security techniques similar to those found on banknotes and a Qr Code”. “We are defending and guaranteeing the traceability of our excellent products from adulteration and Italian Sounding” said the Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida. | |
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| | For wine, 2024 has been a year characterized by a “minus” sign at an international and overall level, from vineyard surface to export in value. But, also with some signals of recovery, and anyway to be analyzed for single country as the case of Italy shows. According to the report “State of the World Vine & Wine Sector in 2024” by Oiv, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, global surface of vineyards continued to drop for the fourth consecutive year also in 2024 (-0.6%) attesting at 7.1 million of hectares. A “decline” on which the phenomenon of vineyard extirpation affected. Also wine production goes down due to extreme climate conditions, and, therefore, to illnesses, but also to economic and market pressures. Factors, which, in 2024, brought the total production to 225.8 million hectoliters, the lowest level of the last 60 years (-4.8% compared to 2023). Looking at the geographical distribution of the vineyard, Spain, the greatest vineyard in the world, covers 930,000 hectares in 2024, but has lost 14,500 (-1.5%) compared to 2023. Behind, there is France (-0.7%) with 783,000 hectares (+0.8% compared to 2023). Italy, alone among the “big” countries, continues its positive trend, reaching 728,000 hectares of vineyards (+0.8% on 2023). In third place there is China with 753,000 hectares (-0.4%), ahead of Italy, Turkey (402,000 hectares, -1%), USA (385,000 hectares, -0.7%), Argentina (200,000 hectares, -2.4%), Romania (187,000 hectares, +0.1%), India (185,000 hectares, +1.8%), Portugal (173,000 hectares, -5.1%). At a productive level, Italy is still the leader and one of the few countries with a positive sign thanks to 44.1 million hectoliters (+15% on 2023) even if the 2024 volume is 6% lower than the five year average. France (No. 2) produced a volume of 36.1 million hectoliters in 2024, but 11.1 million of hectoliters (-23.5%) went lost compared to 2023 (-17.9% on five year average). Spain (No. 3) produced 31 million hectolitres (+9.3%). Italy, France, and Spain, represent the half of wine production in the world (49.3%). Position No. 4 for the United States (21.1 million of hectoliters, -17.2%, data influenced by the harvest of California, the scarcest one since 2004). | |
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| | The stocks of Italian wine still drop, but continue to remain high, more than an average harvest, which, on 2025, March, 31st, were 52.8 million hectoliters (-0.7% compared to the same data 2024) to which 4 million hectoliters of musts, and 152,596 hectoliters of new wine still in fermentation (+63.9% compared to 2024) have to be added (-9.5%). This is the photography taken in the update of the Report “Cantina Italia” by Icqrf, published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture. Which confirms historical trends: 58.6% of wine is in Northern regions, mainly in Veneto; 55% of the total is PDO, 26.1% is PGI, while the remaining part is made up of generic and varietal wines. With the first 20 among PDOS and PGIS (out of 526) which make 57.85 of stocks. | |
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| | | Technical attempts of rebound, buried by the effect Usa duties: it is the possible reading of the first quarter of 2025 of fine wines market, at least according to Liv-Ex observartory (in more detail), analyzed by WineNews. Overall, the framework remains negative with all the indexes in drop since the beginning of the year, and small positive signals arrived in March only by those linked to Italy, and to top brands of Bordeaux. Liv-Ex 100, the index of reference, in March, marked an other -0.7 month by month, the worst performance ever bringing the balance to -2% since the beginning of the year, and that of 12 months to -10%. Liv-Ex 1000 tries to resist, the greatest in numerical terms among the indexes, which, with a -0.1% in March, fixes 2025 loss at -2.1%, and at 9.9% in 12 months. The drop of the main French sub indexes continues even of few decimals (Bordeaux 500, Champagne 50 and Burgundy 150, among others), with the small exceptions of Bordeaux Legends 40 which marked +0.1% in March attesting at +0.2% from the beginning of the year, the only one in the black in the first period of 2025, and of Italy, seen that it says hello to a positive March (+0.4%), which makes 2025 ongoing get closer to parity (-0.4%), Italy 100. | |
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| | | Veneto is the leading region in Piwi vines, with 630 hectares cultivated at resistant vines, 94 producers and 173 labels on trade, equal to 38% of the national total. South Tyrol (53 producers, and 119 wines on trade), Trentino (37 producers, and 61 wines), Lombardy (34 producers, and 49 wines) and Friuli-Venezia Giulia (21 producers, and 41 wines) follow. This is according to the Imvibior project, research conducted by “Dimensione Agricoltura”, with the University of Padua, Agridynamics, and the Ca’ da Roman winery, in collaboration with Association Piwi Veneto (in more detail). | |
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| | Sicily is now one of the leading Italian wine regions. Its diverse territories, the “diamond” Etna, Vittoria, Menfi, Noto, Marsala and Pantelleria make it one of the most fascinating Regions in Italy. And its white wines are experiencing a great moment, as exports of Sicilian PDO whites, in 2024, registered +8.9% compared to 2023, confirming a significant growth trend, following +7.8% in 2023 compared to 2022. This is one of the evidences of the “Observatory on the Competitiveness of Wine Regions-Sicily,” carried out by Nomisma Wine Monitor in collaboration with UniCredit, and illustrated during the launch of “Sicilia en Primeur”, a traveling event organized by Assovini, led by Mariangela Cambria, which for years has shown the beauty and variety of Sicilian wine, at the presentations of new vintages. The 2025 edition will be held in Modica from May 6th to 10th.
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| | The “Rising Sun”, symbol of Japan, is a very propitious sign in these times of crises. And starting today, it will be a showcase for the world’s excellence at Expo Osaka 2025. The Italian Pavilion is also on display with the theme “Art Regenerates Life”. Art, which is also food and wine, as Japan is the top most important Asian market for Italian wine & food (data in more detail). These products will be in the spotlight over the next several months, like they were during the inauguration of the Pavilion with the Ferrari Trento bubbles, and cuisine signed by Eataly. | |
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