The World’s largest vineyard area: Spain

Author: Per Karlsson
July 31, 2009

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Author: Per Karlsson
July 31, 2009

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Spain is the country with the largest area under vine, almost 40% more than France and Italy, which are second and third. Total vineyard area in the world is 7,741 million ha. Europe has 58% of total, Asia 21%, America 13%, Africa 5% and Oceania 3%. Source OIV:

Country (forecast for Mha 2008, % of total)

Spain 1 165 — 15,0%
France 852 — 11,0%
Italy 840 — 10,8%
Turkey 517 — 6,7%
China 470 — 6,1%
United states 398 — 5,1%
Iran 330 — 4,3%
Portugal 246 — 3,2%
Argentina 227 — 2,9%
Romania 207 — 2,7%
World total 7 742

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Per Karlsson

Swedish. Per is co-founder together with his wife Britt of BKWine. Rumour has it that his interest in wine started already when he was 11. Just like Britt he visits some 200 wineries each year on wine tours and for journalistic research. He writes about wine primarily online on BKWine Magazine and in the BKWine Brief. Per is also a professional photographer, specialising in wine and travel photography. See BKWine Photography for more on this. Since a few years back he has also branched out into video production on the same subject. He has contributed all images, and some text, to BKWine’s wine books.

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Per Karlsson