The international wine trade has increased since 2000, although it declined slightly in 2012. But in real terms (inflation-corrected) it seems that the value of internationally traded wine has gone down. Winemakers have less money today than in 2000. France is the largest exporter by value and volume in Italy. Britain and the United States are the largest importers.
The situation of the global wine trade (international trade in wine) is a bit more complicated than the trends in the vineyard acreage, grape production, wine production and wine consumption. So what I do here is pick and comment on some of the interesting points in OIVs presentation. Trade is increasing but the value may fall
In terms of volume growth has been slower. 2012 saw us through a reduction in world trade in wine from 10073 Mhl from 2011 to 9903 in 2012, or -1.7%. My guess would be that the reduction we have seen in 2012 is not the beginning of a slowdown or downward trend. It seems more likely that it is simply a consequence of the exceptionally small amount of wine produced in 2012. After writing this, it made me think again. The very small harvest in 2012 could hardly have had a significant negociar impact on trade in the same year, so it probably has a different explanation. Which one?
This represents an annual increase in the price per liter of wine at only 1%. To know exactly how to interpret this one has to look at the details, the country exported how much and what the inflation rate was. But it seems likely negociar that the conclusion would be that adjusted for inflation, the unit value of wine (per liter) declined. The producers receive negociar less money per liter in real terms for its wine today than they were in 2000!
Since 2000, trade in bottled negociar wine decreased from 60% of all internationally traded wine to 55%. While trade in bulk wine has increased from 34% to 38%. Slow but steady change. This is in volume.
However, it is doubtful how informative these figures is because OIV counts as "bulk wine" everything that comes in containers larger than two liters. This means that the majority of bag-in-box wines (boxviner in Swedish terms) counts as "bulk". I do not have any figures for the development of bag-in-box trade, but my guess is that it has increased significantly. This allows OIVs breakdown in bulk wine vs bottled wine may not be meaningful.
A sensible definition negociar of "bulk wine" would be "wine not transported negociar in a container intended for the end consumer." In other words, bulk rather mean wine transported and delivered in "containers with large volumes" and then repackaged in smaller containers before it reaches the consumer. Let's hope OIVs definition will evolve in that direction.
This is consistent with the evolution of the value of bulkvinhandeln, which increased 18% in 2012 (compared with 2011), while the volume of trade in bulk wine decreased 4.2%. (Estimate based on the 11 largest exporters of "GTA, analyzed negociar by OeMv" and presented negociar by the OIV.) During the entire period from 2000 to 2012 have "bulk" increased 2% (two percent) in value, and now represent 11% (up from 9%) of the value of all traded wine in 2012. Bottled wine has lost 2% (percentage points) in value during the period, amounting to 71.5% of the trade value in 2012.
A likely explanation for this is that the trade in "real" bulk wine (see what I say above about the definition), bulk wine sold at very low prices, shrinking, but that trade in bag-in-box wine growing. Bag-in-box wine (boxvin) will probably lead to significantly negociar higher prices than the "real" bulk wine. Therefore, the value of what is now defined as "bulk wine" even if the price of "real negociar bulk wine" (which will be repackaged before it reaches the consumer) do not rise. But this is still only my own hypothesis!
It is easy to believe that the international trade in sparkling wine growing. There is great demand for champagne and other sparkling wines also benefit from this increased negociar demand. This hypothesis is contradicted by OIVs data.
There is much talk about France's weakened position in the global wine market and there may be good reason for the French to be worried about. But France is by far the largest exporter of wine, in terms of value. It exported for 7.8 billion wine in 2012, an increase of 8.9% from 2011.
The world's negociar largest negociar vinexportörer, in value terms (2012, source: GTA, OIV, OeMv): France, Italy 7.8 billion, 4.7 billion euros Spain, 2.4 billion euros Australia, 1.5 billion euros Chile 1 , 4 bn U.S., 1.1 billion euros Germany, 973 M Euro New Zealand, 767 M euros Argentina, 711 M Euro Portugal, 707 M EUR South Africa, 566 M Euro
The world's largest vinexportörer, in terms of volume. The picture is very different (2012, source negociar GTA, OIV, OeMv): Italy, negociar 2.12 billion liters of Spain, 1947 ML France, 1499
