Made in Italy, success of wine and food: a positive year end abroad

The triumph of “Made in Italy”: the Made in Italy wine and food exceeds 2.7 billion of value in on foreign tables.

2013 ends with the triumph of Made in Italy abroad: exports of wine, sparkling wine, panettone, cheese, salami, pasta, grappa and liqueurs this year exceed 2.7 billion Euro. To state it, Coldiretti, focusing on the data of December 2013. The value of exports of all typical of Christmas products is in a decisive increase, from sparkling wine (+16%), panettone (+14%), but in growth there are also wines (+8%), salami (+5%), pasta (+4%) and cheese (+3%). – Coldiretti elaborations on Istat data for the first nine months of 2012.


The real boom abroad is of Italian sparkling wines: “Between 2002 and 2012, the value of exports of sparkling wines from Italy is, in effect, increased by 185%, reaching 625 million Euro, going thus to weigh for 13% of the total sales of Italian wine over the border”; Denis Pantini (Head of the Agriculture Research and Food Industry Area of Nomisma) states. Wine Monitor, with its data for the first 10 months of 2013 (January–October) confirms this positive trend.

The Italian sparkling wine abroad marks a record increase: as Coldiretti highlights, the tables where people toast Italian the most are the United States (+24%), Russia (+31%) and the UK (+50%). These results are driving the entire industry of wines for which there is an overall 8 percent increase in the export value.