Italian Sommeliers Association
Italian Sommeliers is an open association committed to the promotion of the culture of wine
Wine consumption in Italy, heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, registered a tremendous drop on restaurants consumption and a consequent shift towards supermarkets*(+9%) and online (+102%) purchases compared to the same period of last year.
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The geographical term “Tuscany” will necessarily accompany all the labels of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Rosso di Montepulciano and Vin Santo di Montepulciano. The changes to the disciplinary of Montepulciano wines also published in the Official Journal of the EU.
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2019 Top 5 Wine Importers
USA is the biggest wine importers with almost 6.000 million US$ (around 5.400 million €) of bottled wine equivalent to almost 1.200 million bottles 75cl.
After the UK in the second place, China is the 3rd largest market (considering bottled wine only, if we include bulk wine Germany is the 3rd largest). Since sparkling wine is not significant, in 2019 China imported almost 2.300 million US$ (around 2.100 million €) of still bottled wines (<2 litres) equivalent to over 620 million bottles 75cl.
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Singapore, 23 November 2019 – In the last few years during visits to wine exhibitions in Asia I have noticed an increase of “new” styles of wine presented: “Appassimento” – dried grapes wine – and “Governo” wine. While I will talk about the former next time, today I would like to focus on the latter.
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According to 2018 Wine Report by Mediobanca, Cantine Riunite & GIV is the largest Italian wine producers with a revenue of 615 million Euro. Marchesi Antinori is the largest privately-owned winery with 230 million Euro.
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According to 2018 Wine Report by Mediobanca, “supermarkets” are the major sale channel in the Italian market, accounting 39% of the total sales, followed by “on-trade” (hotels and restaurants) 17% and “wine bar” with 8%; the rest 35% is sold in other channels, such as direct sales, online, dealers, etc.
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Among the most important vegetables for which Italy is the leading European producer, there are grapes, apples, pears, kiwi, tomatoes, wheat, but not olives.
