The report covers the areas under vines, grape production, wine production and consumption, and wine import and export volumes.
In 2018:
•The world's winegrowing area represents 7.4 kha
•Global grape production reaches 78 mt.
Global table grape production is of 27.3 mt.
Global dried grape production is of 1.3 mt.
•World wine production (excluding juice and must) is estimated at 292 mhl.
World wine consumption is estimated at 246 mhl.
World trade in wine accounts for 108 mhl in volume and 31 bn EUR in value.
The director general of the OIV has also presented the OIV Focus 2019: Industrial Use of Wine.
Know more about the 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine
On July 17 in Geneva the International OIV Jury awarded 11 Prizes and 9 Special Mentions among 51 works in competition and 15 countries who were represented: one superb OIV Awards vintage 2019!
Viticulture
OIV Award
Vine Roots / Wingerdwortels
Eben Archer, Dawid Saayman
Publication IGWS - Institute for Grape & Wine Sciences
(EN + Afrikaans, Free Web access)
Special Mention
Handbook for Irrigation of Wine Grapes in South Africa
Philip Albertus Myburgh
Publication IGWS - Institute for Grape & Wine Sciences
(Free Web access)
Viticulture and Enology
OIV Award
Winorośl I Wino. Wiedza i praktyka (część 1 i 2)
Roman Myśliwiec, Ewa Wawro, Wojciech Bosak
Edition Fundacja Galicja Vitis
Enology
OIV Award
Red Wine Technology
Antonio Morata, coordinateur / coordinator
Edition Elsevier Inc.
Economy
OIV Award
The Palgrave Handbook of Wine Industry Economics
Adeline Alonso Ugaglia, Jean-Marie Cardebat, Alessandro Corsi, coordinators
Edition Palgrave Macmillan
Special Mention
Coffee and Wine: Two Worlds Compared
Morten Scholer
Edition Troubador Publishing Ltd
History
OIV Award
Les petits vignobles. Des territoires en question (Moyen Âge-XXIe s.)
Stéphane Le Bras, director of the collective work
Publication Presses Universitaires de Rennes and Presses Universitaires François Rabelais
Special Mention
Hunter Wine : A history (1828 – 1983)
Julie McIntyre, John Germov
Edition NewSouth Books (University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney)
Literature
Special Mention
Sommelier à mots choisis
Philippe Bourguignon
With the contribution of Jean Serroy
Edition "Editions Glénat"
Fine Arts - Photography
Special Mention
Giacomo Tachis - Mescolavin
Bruno Bruchi, photographer
Andrea Cappelli, author
Edition Carlo Cambi Editore with the collaboration of Edizioni Effigi with Fondazione ChiantiBanca
Discovering and Presenting Wines
OIV Award
Languedoc Roussillon södra frankrikes viner
Britt Karlsson, Bengt Rydén, Per Karlsson
Edition Carlsson Bokförlag
Special Mention
Skin Contact - Voyage aux origines du vin nu
Alice Feiring
(translated by Sophie Brissaud : « For the love of Wine »)
Edition "Editions Nouriturfu"
Wines and Territories
OIV Award
Italiensk Vin
Thomas Ilkjær, Paolo Lolli, Arne Ronold, Ole Udsen
Edition Forlagshuset Vigmostad & Bjørke
Special Mention
Vignes et Vins, paysages et civilisations millénaires
Raphaël Schirmer
Edition "Editions Glénat"
Monographs and Specialised Studies
OIV Award
Roche et vin. À la découverte des vignobles suisses
Stein und Wein. Entdeckungsreisen durch die Schweizerischen Rebbaugebiete
Editor-in-chief Rainer Kündig
With Jean-Claude Hofstetter, Christoph Meyer, Thomas Mumenthaler
Edition (FR + DE) AS Verlag
Special Mention
La Noblesse du Tonneau
Roland Bugada, Gilles Bousquet, Frédéric Gillet, André Valognes
Edition Editions de L'Escargot Savant
Atlas - Ampelography
OIV Award
Atlante dei vitigni tradizionali di Puglia
Pierfederico La Notte, Francesco Civita, Stefano Raimondi, Anna Schneider
Edition CRSFA - Centro di Ricerca, Sperimentazione e Formazione in Agricoltura
« Basile Caramia »
Special Mention
The Cretan Grapes
Κρητική Αμπελογραφία
Maritina Stavrakaki - Μαριτίνα Σταυρακάκη
Manolis N. Stavrakakis - Μανόλης Ν. Σταυρακάκης
Edition (GR + EN) TROPI
Sustainable Vitiviniculture
OIV Award - EX ÆQUO
Terroir - Wetter, Klima, Boden
Dieter Hoppmann, Klaus Schaller, Manfred Stoll
Edition Eugen Ulmer Verlag
El sector vitivinícola frente al desafío del cambio climático. Estrategias públicas y privadas de mitigación y adaptación en el Mediterráneo
Raúl Compés López, Vicente Sotés Ruiz, coordinators
Edition Cajamar Caja Rural
Thanks to the work of Switzerland’s Organising Committee and Scientific Committee, presided respectively by Simone de Montmollin and François Murisier, Geneva became the global capital of vitiviniculture from 15 to 19 July 2019.
A member of the OIV since 1934, Switzerland had previously hosted the World Congress of Vine and Wine in 1955 and in 1977.
The 17th General Assembly of the OIV concluded the week, with 18 new resolutions adopted.
In the photo: Adrian Aebi, Assistant Director of the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG); Pau Roca, Director General of the OIV; Marco Romano, President of the Swiss Interprofessional Organisation of Vine and Wine (IVVS); Nathalie Fontanet, State Councillor for the Canton of Geneva; François Murisier, President of the Scientific Committee for the 42nd OIV Congress; Simone de Montmollin, President of the Organising Committee for the 42nd OIV Congress; Regina Vanderlinde, President of the OIV; Monika Christmann, Vice-President of the OIV; Luigi Moio, 2nd Vice-President (and Scientific Vice-President) of the OIV.
Environmental expectations
With the central theme of ‘Preservation and innovation: expectations at the environmental, economic and social level’, the discussions of the OIV Congress dealt with the following issues: climate change, to which vines are highly sensitive; value promotion of products (terroirs, origin, sanitary and food-grade quality of vine products, sugar content, allergens, etc.); and vine protection, with the highly topical question of input management.
On the opening day of the Congress, the latter theme was also the object of a public conference entitled ‘A reasoned approach to inputs: scientific contributions and consumer perception’.
The President of the OIV, Regina Vanderlinde, highlighted the excellent quality of the 348 technical and scientific presentations – some of which came from countries such as Japan or even Nepal.
The Director General of the OIV, Pau Roca, who presented a report on the world vitivinicultural situation at the opening ceremony, praised Switzerland’s organisation of this remarkable Congress, which was the fourth biggest in terms of presentations in the last 10 years.
Papers that have received author consent for publication will be available on the EDP Sciences Web of Conferences website in September.
As part of the Organisation’s sustainable approach, this 42nd Congress was the first ‘paper-free’ OIV Congress. It was also the first time that all of the information regarding the events and scientific work presented was available for consultation via an app.
The new OIV resolutions
The 17th General Assembly of the OIV concluded the week of scientific work with the adoption of 18 new resolutions.
With regard to climate change – a major concern for the sector – it is worth highlighting Resolution OIV-VITI 564B-2019, which defines polyclonal selection, as well as an OIV protocol for the protection and conservation of the intravarietal diversity and the polyclonal selection of vines for grape varieties with wide genetic variability.
Consumer expectations and the reduction of the use of SO2 – issues also at the heart of debate within the sector – are the object of Resolution OIV-OENO 594A-2019. This Resolution establishes an innovative practice with the objectives, among others, of reducing the microbial loads of indigenous microorganisms (especially yeasts), and of reducing SO2 levels used in winemaking.
A summary of all of the resolutions may be consulted here. The full texts of the resolutions adopted will shortly be published on the OIV website.
The OIV Assembly also marked the passing of the baton from Switzerland to Chile, the host country for the future 43rd World Congress of Vine and Wine, to be held in Santiago from 23 to 27 November 2020.
Information and the 2 registration forms for the 2020 Edition available here.
Submissions are opened from September 2019 to 28 February 2020
Contact: jurydesprix@oiv.int.
To attend this press conference, journalists are kindly asked to send an email with their name and their professional contact details to press@oiv.int.
Date: Thursday 31 October 2019
Time: 11am
Location: *attention new headquarters* International Organisation of Vine and Wine, (OIV), 35 Rue de Monceau, Paris 75008 - Metro station Monceau or Miromesnil [see map]