According to the international organization of the vine and wine, the hexagon will give his traditional second place to Spain, Italy remaining in mind. French collection amounted to 34.2 million hectoliters, down 27% compared to 2020.
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GEL, Mildew, Drought: The Weather Cocktail of the year 2020 has been difficult to swallow for French winemakers. In the pressures, the grape juice has sank sparingly. After harvest rather late, the time is on the first balance. According to the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), France would lose its traditional second place and would be retrograde in the world’s third largest wine producers.
In a balance sheet of world production published Thursday, November 4, the OIV estimates the collection in the hexagon at 34.2 million hectoliters, which represents a dive of 27% compared to the level of 2020. Even If his traditional competitors – Italy and Spain – have also undergone some climatic hazards, the note is, for them, much less salty. With its 44.5 million hectoliters (a 9% withdrawal volume), Italy keeps its world leader crown. As for Spain, it has seen its brews reduction by 14%, but, with a total of 35 million tonnes, it grills politeness to France.
In Europe, some countries have experienced better fortune. Thus, Romania, Hungary, Germany and Portugal have benefited from more favorable cultivation conditions and have volume progressions. Nevertheless, when the global head trio garbage greedy harvesting is the whole wine production of wine that trins. According to the OIV, in 2021, it should be extremely small, at a level close to that, historically low, of 2017. The average estimate is 250 million hectoliters, by declining by 4% compared to 2020 .
In the southern hemisphere, the time is at satisfaction
However, out of the European Union, vineyards have benefited from more clementic heavens. In the United States, despite drought episodes, volumes increase by 6%, 24.3 million hectoliters, after a year 2020 marked by California pest fires. In the southern hemisphere, the time is at satisfaction: Chile, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa and Australia refotted in their wine vats. This geographical area displays record production of 59 million hectoliters, up sharply by 19%.
Naturally, these estimates disseminated by the OIV evoke production volumes, not the value. If France is therefore usually in the second place of the world ranking behind Italy, it wins the first place in terms of valorization of these wines. A status it should keep, even if it is downgraded in 2021 in terms of volume, especially as the exports of Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy and other rosés of Provence are again flourishing after the air hole of the crisis Due to COVID-19. French winemakers cross the fingers. Everything will depend on 2022. It does not have to absolutely that Lady Nature plays a bad tower again. Living on its reserves has limits, the winemakers know it well.