2025 Grape Crush Report: Ciatti Comments // 2 Years Of Panic. Now The Wine Industry’s Survivors Are Rewriting The Rules

California's smallest winegrape crush since 1999.

The global wine industry spent two years in crisis. New data on drinking habits, a landmark EU trade deal, and hard-won pragmatism from producers suggest the worst may be over.

After a growing season that’s been ‘anything but predictable’ Tasmania’s 2026 wine grape harvest is finally underway.

Green shoots: Is this a “transitional moment”?

Vintner Hayes Drumwright and winemaker Sam Kaplan are planning a new wine label after buying a historic Napa winery from Joel Gott.

At the 2026 Premiere Napa Valley auction, The Vice debuted the first orange wine ever offered in the event’s history, marking a milestone for both the winery and Napa Valley’s evolving wine landscape.

A small grape crush might be good for wine lovers, but the wider agricultural picture is less cheerful.

Read the full grape crush report.

Italian wine exports declined in 2025, “heavily impacted” by US tariffs and the resulting dollar devaluation, new data suggests.

While Japan imported slightly less wine in 2025, it also paid a bit more for it, due to a combination of market headwinds, and the growing popularity for high-quality bottles, customs data has revealed.

Sotheby’s saw its global wine and spirit sales rise 12% during 2025, to US$127.5 million, attributing this to “renewed global momentum and a rapidly expanding collector base”.    

Overstocked wine collectors round the world share their strategies.

According to new data from NIQ and the World Data Lab, consumer spending on alcohol beverages is estimated to reach upwards of $300 billion by 2034, with wine (+4.5%) logging greater growth than beer (+2.4%) or spirits (2.8%). 

As medicines like GLP‑1s move into the mainstream, they’re quietly reshaping the way people eat, drink, and experience hospitality.

Non-alcoholic beer is being added to the list of goods used to measure UK inflation while different wine categories are merged into one, in a sign Britons are becoming more health-conscious.

The Santa Lucia Highlands sit in a unique confluence of conditions that deliver wines glistening with minerality. North American Editor Clive Pursehouse reports.

Founded in the mid-19th century in the hill town of Montalcino, Biondi-Santi is considered the birthplace of Brunello di Montalcino.

“We need to work differently. That’s it. Working against our brains will never get the best out of us. Understanding that isn’t kindness. It’s just good business.”

As the president’s immigration policies squeeze an already tight supply of farm labor, the Trump administration is making it cheaper to hire foreign farmworkers.