Growing consumption of wine in Spanish households
on January 31, 2011
By type of wine, the protected by an appellation of origin presented a better evolution in this past year. Without hardly changing its price average (+ 0.4%), wines with DO add to the month of November and in inter-annual terms by 5.2% in value and 3% in volume to 548 million euros, 146 million litres, an average of 3.75 EUR per litre. More stable, at least in value maintained the sales of the wine without appellation of origin which, with a slight decrease of 0.1% amounted to 277 billion euros, while the 2.5% increase allowed them to reach 238 million litres. Were Furthermore, sparkling wines and cavas regressing to the month of November (with prior to the Christmas sales) 2.6% in value and 4.3 per cent in volume, reaching, each one at the 158 million euros to 28.9 million litres.
By autonomous communities Catalonia, Andalusia and Madrid are those of increased consumption in absolute terms due to its size and half is, in general, North of Spain which concentrates the largest per capita consumption. And where, also, it is more growing this year. Thus, in addition to Balearic Islands, autonomous communities such as Cantabria, Catalonia, Basque country, Asturias and Galicia lead increased consumption in litres and major acquisitions in euros per person. For its part, until November of last year and compared with the previous year, as La Rioja, Navarre and Madrid, the communities with more growth in the channel of FAO, with 31.3 per cent increase in spending per capita in La Rioja, from 25.6 per cent in Navarra and 12.4 per cent in Madrid.
