Wine exports healthy as value rises

We might be drinking a little less, but we’re drinking better quality, according to the latest export figures. French, Italian and Spanish wines continued to perform well on the export market, as the global thirst for wine remains seemingly unquenched. Figures released this week by Dutch agri-bank Rabobank showed that while volumes for French and Italian wines dipped slightly in the first quarter of the year, value was most definitely up.