Spanish wine exports 2006

The Spanish Wine Federation (FEV) has just released their interanual export data for the period Feb 2006 to January 2007.

Overall, the general trends are continuing as seen earlier: the value of exports are up 4.9%, volumes are slightly off at -0.5%, and average price per liter is up by 5.4%, demonstrating the continued growth of bottled wines (up 5.2% in volume) versus bulk wines (down 7.5% in volume) and of mainly higher priced wines from D.O.s (up by 9% in value).

In general Spanish white wines continue to outpace all others in terms of growth (up 10,7% in volume for the combination of still bottled whites from D.O. and table wines. However, red and rosados continue to account for 74% of all still bottled wine exports.

For Cava, exports were up 7% in volume and 1.7% in value, but average price per liter dropped by 5%.

Sherry continues to lose ground, down in volumes by 25%, but only down in value by 7%, while registering a per liter price rise of 24%. So, sherries seem to be pursuing an up-market export strategy.

Breaking with the impressive growth registered earlier, vinos de aguja closed down 30% in volume and 18% in value, but with a per liter price rise of 16.6%.