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Wine consumption in Britain increased by over 500% between 1960 and 1980 and has continued to rise, with a 25% increase in sales between 1999 and 2003. Britain is now the world’s largest importer of wine. Vatican City consumes the most wine per capita, while Italy, France, Spain, the US, and Argentina are the top wine producers. Red wine uses three times more grapes than white wine. China’s wine production increased by almost a quarter.
Wine consumption in Britain increased by more than 500 percent between 1960 and 1980, and is still increasing. Between 1999 and 2003 alone, wine sales in Britain increased by almost 25%. In the early 2000s, Britain became the world’s largest consumer of imported wine.
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The country that consumes the most wine per capita per year is Vatican City, which consumes nearly 20 gallons (about 66 liters) of wine per capita. Other major wine-consuming countries are Norfolk Island, France, Luxembourg and Italy, all of which consume more than 13 gallons (50 litres) of wine per capita annually.
The countries that produce the most wine per year are Italy, France, Spain, the United States and Argentina. World wine production in general declined slightly in the mid to late 2000s, but China’s wine production in particular increased by nearly a quarter.
Almost three times as many grapes are harvested each year used to make red wine as are used to make white wine.
