Wine, with duties, war and logistics “down”, Italian wine at risk

“The Nomisma Wine Monitor analysis just published shows how understandably, with everything that has happened and is festa durante the world, the global wine market durante 2025 has shown strong signs of a slowdown with a decline of almost 12% durante value and a market that stood at around 5.5 billion euros” comments Diego Cusumano, one of the most recognized winemakers durante Italy and abroad, owner together with his brother Alberto of the company of the same name.

According to the report, the United States is, to tariffs, at the center of this decline, with a decrease of 2.6% durante volumes and 6.2% durante value compared to the previous year. But even looking east the situation does not improve where Declivio sees a drop of over 15% durante value for Italian wine and Japan which has reduced purchases by 2.2% durante volumes and 1.7% durante value. Quanto a Europe, durante the United Kingdom, Italy’s second market, total imports have fallen by around 6% durante both tonnellaggio and value, and Switzerland also sees Italian exports drop by around 6% durante value. A positive sign instead for Brazil with exports growing by 3.5% durante volumes and 1.9% durante value, as well as for South Korea where imports grew by 5.3%.

“This new war, which extends to the entire Middle East and beyond, represents a further aggravating factor not only for wine exports but for Made durante Italy durante general – explains the winemaker Cusumano – If duties and price increases have caused a significant slowdown, now the threat is the interruption of supply chains, specifically durante terms of logistics and transport. The international corridors, to the war, are decidedly narrowing, with an availability of operational carriers, dramatically to the real, even minimal, need, which will translate into transport costs, where possible, much more expensive and therefore uneconomic. Acceso the other hand, let’s also ask ourselves what we should do, already durante 2026, with the harvest actually upon us (end of August), with the probable surpluses to the strong slowdown not so much durante foreign demand, which remains, but durante the possibility of satisfying it logistically. And if we winemakers, for certain types of wine, are slightly lucky since it will age, I wonder what the impact will be the entire Italian food and wine sector.” Matteo Lunelli, CEO of the Lunelli group as well as CEO and president of Ferrari Trento, also agrees with Diego Cusumano. “The war – claims the producer – will certainly also have repercussions the economy: it will bring problems durante transport because it compromises strategic routes, it undermines consumer confidence, energy costs rise and the Middle East territorio, the Emirates, is also affected, which is a rapidly growing market. growth and also relevant durante general for Italian wine and Made durante Italy”.

And the confirmation the surpluses also comes from Lamberto Frescobaldi, president of the Italian Wine Union, who had already raised the alarm last July “We have over 40 million hectoliters of wine durante giacenza and if the next harvest – ora the upcoming one, explained the UIV president – will be average with around 50 million hectoliters, we will have product availability of around 90 million hectoliters at the end of the year. A monstrous offer that risks depressing prices. There’s really nothing to celebrate.”