Worldwide wine production increases by twelve percent
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Italy defended first place in the ranking of the most important wine producing countries. There, 48.5 million hectolitres of wine were pressed, an increase of 14 percent over the previous year. One hectolitre is 100 litres. In France, according to statistics wine country number two, production rose by 27 per cent to 46.4 million hectolitres and in Spain to third place by 26 per cent to 40.9 million hectolitres. The three traditional European wine countries together account for almost half of total world production.
After an increase of 31 percent, Germany came in ninth place. There the winegrowers were able to produce 9.8 million hectolitres, the highest production level of the last 10 years./evs/DP/jha (dpa)
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