date:Apr 08, 2014
tion that wine export is a driving force for Italy. Exports registered record-high levels, while the domestic wine consumption was continuing to fall back.
Some 10 years ago, Italy was exporting abroad around 15 million hectoliters of wine on an annual production of 45 million hectoliters, while currently the ratio was almost one to one on an annual production of 47 million hectoliters, Pantini explained to Xinhua.
He noted that the leaders in terms of destination countries for Italian wine we