- There are approximately 9 million Docg labels delivered in 2020 by the Consortium for as many bottles of Brunello di Montalcino ready for sale.
This was made known by the Wine Protection Consortium.
The figure recorded by Valoritalia is higher (+ 12.2%) than the bottles placed on the market in 2019 and the average of the last 5 years (+ 4.3%).
The protagonist of the trend is the 2015 vintage, "judged extraordinary - reports a note - by international critics and the subject of a boom in orders from all over the world even before its debut on the shelves".
The Consortium underlines that "in its first sales season (the reserve is on the market this year), the 2015 vintage has already done better than the previous two thousandths respectively by + 53% of + 32%. The trend is also good. of the 2016 vintage, for which 2.7 million DOCG marks were requested between November and December for the same number of bottles ready to be distributed worldwide. It is also noted that "the health emergency has certainly limited but not stopped a growth that it would have been even clearer without the drop in requests in the months of May and December. "The deliveries of labels for Rosso di Montalcino are reported stable in 2020 (-1%, to over 4.1 million bottles)." current situation - said the president of the Brunello di Montalcino wine consortium Fabrizio Bindocci - the general result is absolutely positive, even if under normal conditions the growth would have been at least double "." We had - he adds
and - the good fortune to face the most difficult period with the 2 best consecutive years in history as allies ".
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