Poor weather around the world is likely to cause global wine production to drop to a six-decade low this year.
The OIV attributes the low levels of production to bad weather, including frost, heavy rainfall and drought.
“A perfect storm in the north and south hemispheres has created this catastrophic situation,” the OIV’s head of statistics, Giorgio Delgrosso, told the BBC.
But it remained perfectly even in France, meaning the country is now the world’s largest producer, overtaking Italy.
“As economic growth in China has slowed since 2018, we’ve seen consumption and imports of wine drop significantly,” Mr Delgrosso said.
In August, the French government announced that it would allocate some €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine stocks as the industry struggled to adapt to falling demand.
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