{"id":37670,"date":"2021-04-21T02:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfi-global-staging.com\/topwineold\/?p=37670"},"modified":"2021-05-12T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T06:43:32","slug":"south-africa-surpasses-chile-as-7th-biggest-wine-producer-latest-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfi-global-staging.com\/topwineold\/2021\/04\/south-africa-surpasses-chile-as-7th-biggest-wine-producer-latest-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa surpasses Chile as 7th biggest wine producer – latest stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IN YEAR ONE of the Covid-19 crisis, wine consumption internationally dropped by [just] 3%. “A Year of Resilience”, was how the director general of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) Pau Roca described 2020 at the OIV's 2021 conference<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>about the state of the world, viticulturally and viniculturally speaking.<\/p>\n

From the OIV\u2019s headquarters in Paris, Roca reported that the size of the world's vineyard remained stable and that world wine production was slightly up \u2013 in fact 7% up in the case of South Africa, with other countries to show volume growth including Spain (21%), France (11%), New Zealand (11%), Italy (3%), Germany and Georgia (both 2%). However, world wine consumption in 2020 was estimated at 234mhl, 3% down on 2019 and the lowest level recorded since 2002, and worst affected among the Top 20 wine-consuming nations was South Africa, with consumption down 19% year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Consumer behaviour in 2020 was influenced by factors including the length and strictness of Covid-19 lockdown measures, associated policies such as sales bans, as well as the drop in tourism. The closure of hotels and restaurants was only partially compensated for by the increase in sales via e-commerce, and premium wine suffered most from the closure of restaurants and tasting rooms, with sparkling wine the category hardest hit.<\/p>\n

In terms of wine exports around the world, there was an overall contraction of 1.7% in volume, down to 105.8mhl, and of 6.7% in value, down to \u20ac29.6-billion. Of the Top 10 exporters on the basis of volume, South Africa experienced the biggest drop of 12% (the country falls outside the Top 10 by value).<\/p>\n

It would seem that many Cape wine producers, and the industry body ‘Wines of South Africa' who are mandated to promote exports, have their work cut out for them to turn things around internationally, while on the local scene one can expect to continue seeing special deals and price promotions in an effort to deal with surplus stocks.<\/p>\n

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ACCORDING to OIV statistics<\/strong><\/span><\/a> released in April 2021, the area under vine throughout the world was estimated at 7.3 million hectares in 2020 (stable since 2017), with total wine production estimated at 260 million hectolitres \u2013 about the same as 2019, down from 292 in 2018, vs 250 million hectolitres in 2017, the lowest in the 21st<\/sup> century to date.<\/p>\n

The OIV's 2020 data has South Africa ranked seventh among the biggest wine-producing countries on the planet, ahead of Chile and Germany and just behind Australia. The Top 3 account for more than half of the world's production, the Top 8 more than 77% of all wine produced \u2013 volumes given in millions of hectolitres:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Italy \u2013 49.1 mhl (47.5 in 2019, 54.8 in 2018, 42.5 in 2017)
\n2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>France \u2013 46.6 mhl (42.2 in 2019, 49.2 in 2018, 36.4 in 2017)
\n3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Spain \u2013 40.7 mhl (33.7 in 2019, 44.9 in 2018, 32.5 in 2017)
\n4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>USA \u2013 22.8 mhl (25.6 in 2019, 26.1 in 2018, 24.5 in 2017)
\n5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Argentina \u2013 10.8 mhl (13.0 in 2019, 14.5 in 2018, 11.8 in 2017)
\n6\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Australia \u2013 10.6 mhl (12.0 in 2019, 12.7 in 2018, 13.7 in 2017)
\n7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0South Africa \u2013 10.4 mhl (9.7 in 2019, 9.5 in 2018, 10.8 in 2017)<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Chile \u2013 10.3 mhl (11.9 in 2019, 12.9 in 2018, 9.5 in 2017)
\n9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Germany \u2013 8.4 mhl (8.2 in 2019, 10.3 in 2018, 7.5 in 2017)
\n10\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>China \u2013 6.6 mhl (7.8 in 2019, 9.3 in 2018, 11.6 in 2017)
\n11\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Portugal \u2013 6.4 mhl (6.5 in 2019, 6.1 in 2018, 6.7 in 2017)
\n12\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Russia \u2013 4.4 mhl (4.6 in 2019, 4.3 in 2018, 4.5 in 2017)
\n13\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Romania \u2013 3.6 mhl (3.8 in 2019, 5.1 in 2018, 4.3 in 2017)
\n14\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>New Zealand \u2013 3.3 mhl (3.0 in 2019, 3.0 in 2018, 2.9 in 2017)
\n15\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Hungary \u2013 2.4 mhl (2.7 in 2019, 3.6 in 2018, 2.5 in 2017)
\n16\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Austria \u2013 2.4 mhl (2.5 in 2019, 2.8 in 2018, 2.5 in 2017)
\n17\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Greece \u2013 2.3 mhl (2.4 in 2019, 2.2 in 2018, 2.6 in 2017)
\n18\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Brazil \u2013 1.9 mhl (2.0 in 2019, 3.1 in 2018, 3.6 in 2017)
\n19\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Georgia \u2013 1.8 mhl (1.8 in 2019, 1.7 in 2018, 1.0 in 2017)<\/p>\n

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