After overcoming the pandemic crisis and setting all-time records in 2021, the world wine trade has encountered a year of great uncertainty.
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The Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, Arantxa Tapia, has participated, together with the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Policy, Bittor Oroz, in the acts of Uztaberri Eguna, a traditional day in which winemakers open their doors to publicize the young wines from the latest harvest. Throughout the morning, they have visited wineries and gastronomic stands, and have provided information on the evolution of wine exports during the past year.
“Following the trend of world wine trade in a period of great uncertainty and high inflation,” Tapia stated in Lapuebla de Labarca, “Alava’s exports of DOCa Rioja wines fell in volume by 16.9%but they held up well in value (-2.6%), thanks to an average price that already reached 6.92 euros per liter, more than one euro per liter higher than that registered in the same period of 2021.”
In fact, in fourteen of the first fifteen markets, all but France, they went up significantly in price.
The foreign sales of wine with DOCa Rioja carried out from Álava approached the 21.2 million liters, at an average price 18.6% higher than in 2021, which has had the consequence that turnover was barely reduced, which reached 146.7 million euros. By variety, whites fell more than reds and rosés in volume, although they generated slightly more turnover, as their average price skyrocketed.
After overcoming the crisis derived from the covid-19 pandemic and registering historical records in 2021, the world wine trade, which aimed to consolidate this growth in 2022, has found a year of great uncertainty.
Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, the transport crisis and the supply of materials or the sharp rise in energy and fuel prices have led to a high level of inflation global. The world export of wine is losing volume, but gaining turnover, due to very high prices.
Source: Eitb
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