Spain Ups Its Wine Game: Much More than Sangria

In 2020, worldwide wine drinking dropped by 2.8 percent, although there had been optimistic reports of people stocking up on wines. This is the third year in a row that worldwide wine intake has declined. Despite general population growth, worldwide wine drinking is at its lowest level since 2002 (wine-searcher.com). Even in China, wine consumption dropped 17.4 percent (the world’s sixth-largest wine market) while the people in Spain stopped drinking as much (down 6.8 percent), and the Canadians moved on to other beverages, cutting their wine drinking by 6 percent.