Wine

Ageing populations, a high degree of maturity and high per capita consumption in most Western European markets, along with changes in lifestyle trends towards a reduction in alcohol consumption are putting pressure on wine volume sales. The Covid 19…

In 2020, the global alcoholic drinks market faced a genuinely unprecedented collapse that proved to be far worse than the depths of the 2008 Great Recession while overshadowing every other major regional, macro or black swan event-driven crisis in…

Sales of wine saw a significant decline in volume terms in 2020 due to lockdown and foodservice closures as a result of COVID-19. In 2021, given the importance attached to the social and celebratory aspect of wine drinking, the recovery of the…

In 2021, Chileans enjoyed higher disposable incomes due to permission to make pension withdrawals in addition to government funded transfers, generating very high, and sometimes historic, growth rates across many categories of alcoholic drinks,…

In terms of total volume sales, 2022 was not the best vintage for wine in France. Rather, the category slightly waned as per the structural trend seen pre-pandemic, with a strong switch back from off-trade to on-trade. This contrasts with 2021,…