Who drinks the most wine in the world?

ew statistics from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) have ranked the biggest wine drinkers around the world last year. 

Italy’s wine consumption has dropped to an all-time low, meaning the land of Chianti and Prosecco drunk less than beer-swilling Germany for the first time ever last year.

The surprising statistics came ironically as Italy dethroned France to become the world’s largest wine producer in 2015, with one in every five bottles sold abroad coming from the Mediterranean country.

Italians themselves, however, seem to be losing their thirst for “il vino”.

The United States topped the list of the world’s biggest wine-drinking nation in 2015, followed by France and then Germany, according to the new study from the OIV. This is the first time that Italy has been out-drunk by its German counterparts.

Germans drank 20.5 million hectolitres of wine last year, compared to 30.1 million in the US and 27.2 million in France. Britain, meanwhile, jumped 2.4 per cent to 12.9 million, with Germans drinking 1.1 per cent more.


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