Italy’s agricultural wine production reached 4.603 billion euros in 2025, driven by a 2.9% rise in volume.

Italy’s agricultural wine production rose to 4.603 billion euros in 2025, up 3.1% from a year earlier, as higher output rather than higher prices drove the gain, according to the country’s 2025 Economic Accounts for Agriculture published by Istat on June 12.

The increase came almost entirely from production. Istat said wine volume rose 2.9% in real terms, while the price index edged up just 0.1%. That made wine one of the Italian farm products that expanded in real output last year and showed a result tied to larger quantities, not a broad increase in producer prices.

The 4.603 billion-euro figure gave wine a 6.5% share of the 71.117 billion euros in agricultural goods and services recorded by Istat for 2025. Within crop activities, wine accounted for a little more than 12% of total value. Within woody crops, it represented more than 27%, based on calculations from Istat’s statistical annex. Those shares show wine’s weight inside Italian agriculture, but they do not describe the entire wine business, winery sales across all channels or consumer spending on wine.

Using Istat’s published growth rate to reconstruct the prior year, Italy’s agricultural wine production was roughly 4.465 billion euros in 2024. That implies an increase of about 138 million euros in 2025, though the estimate is approximate because Istat rounds the annual changes to one decimal place. Even with that caveat, the numbers show that nearly all of the nominal increase can be traced to the 2.9% rise in volume.

Wine also outperformed the broader category of viticultural products. That group reached 6.328 billion euros in 2025, equal to 8.9% of total agricultural goods and services. Its volume rose 1.6%, prices fell 1.5% and total value increased only 0.1%. Wine made up close to 73% of the value of all viticulture in that classification and was the part that supported the result. The gap between the two figures leaves 1.725 billion euros for the other viticultural products grouped by Istat.

The difference in performance was wide. Applying the official rates, the broader viticulture category added only about 6 million euros from 2024, while wine alone increased by around 138 million euros. By arithmetic difference, the remaining viticultural products appear to have lost about 132 million euros, or roughly 7%. That estimate is also approximate because it is built from rounded data, but it points to a year in which wine grew while other parts of the viticulture category contracted. It also helps explain why average prices for the overall category fell 1.5% even though wine prices were almost unchanged.

Istat’s 2.9% volume gain is not a direct measure in hectoliters. In these accounts, the institute uses volume indexes to separate changes in output from changes in prices. That means the data show wine production increased in real terms, but they do not convert the gain into liters inside the same tables. The current-price value of 4.603 billion euros combines that real increase with the very small rise in the basic price received by producers.

That basic price matters when reading the figures. Istat defines it as the amount actually received by the producer, including product subsidies and excluding taxes on the product. It also leaves out trade and transport margins billed separately. In practice, the number is not the shelf price of a bottle, not the value of exports and not retail turnover. It is a farm-gate valuation of production within the national accounts system.

To calculate it, Istat uses a quantity-times-price method. Quantities come from a survey on crop area and production, with provincial detail on planted area, average yield per hectare, total output and harvested production. Prices come from a monthly survey of products sold by farmers, also with provincial information. The calculation accounts for seasonality and excludes imported products. Producer prices are then adjusted for the relevant subsidies and taxes to produce the basic prices used in the accounts.

That territorial base helps explain Istat’s statement that the main push in 2025 came from central and southern Italy, together with some northern areas. The report does not divide the 4.603 billion euros by region, but it does identify those parts of the country as the main source of the year’s increase. More detailed regional tables in the annex combine vineyards with other farm activities, so the general territorial shares cannot be transferred directly to wine alone.

The accounting perimeter is another important limit. Istat’s first set of figures is based on Italy’s national accounts, while its comparison with the European Union uses the Agricultural Satellite Account prepared for Eurostat. The two systems do not cover exactly the same activities. In the satellite account, wine processed by cooperatives is included in agricultural production. In Italy’s national accounts, that output is assigned to the beverage industry.

For Italy, Istat distinguishes between ATECO 01.21.00, which covers grape growing and the making of wine from a farm’s own grapes, and ATECO 11.02.10, which includes industrial production, wine cooperatives and quality or table wines produced in defined regions. Because of that split, the 4.603 billion euros cannot be treated as the value of all wine produced by the Italian economy. It describes the wine included in the agricultural branch under the national accounts framework, while industrial and cooperative production appears under a different activity.

The same methodological difference is why Istat’s Italian number should not be divided directly by the European total to produce a market share. The EU27 figure comes from the satellite account and covers a broader perimeter for wine. The more useful comparison is in the movement of volume, prices and value, as long as the different accounting frameworks remain clear.

The accounts also include some costs linked to farms that make and sell their own wine. Among intermediate consumption items, Istat counts bottling, the marketing of wine produced on the farm and packaging tied to first processing and preparation for market, alongside the usual technical inputs of agriculture. That means the 4.603 billion euros should be read as production value, not as profit, business margin or a stand-alone measure of value added for winemaking. The tables do not provide a separate wine account for employment or investment.

The measure does not divide wine by color, production method, geographic indication or sales channel. Its purpose is to record the product inside agricultural accounting with a consistent valuation of quantities and basic prices. Economically, the signal is concentrated in three points: volume was up 2.9%, price was nearly flat and current value reached 4.603 billion euros.

Across the EU27, the value of wine production recorded in the Agricultural Satellite Account rose to 23.656 billion euros in 2025. Volume increased 3.2%, prices fell 2.2% and total value ended 0.9% above 2024. Wine represented about 8.6% of the value of European crops and a little more than 4% of the total production of the Union’s agricultural branch. At current prices, that annual increase was about 211 million euros, based on the published rate.

The European pattern differed from Italy’s national agricultural accounts. In the EU27, a slightly stronger rise in volume was held back by falling prices. In Italy, volume growth was only three-tenths of a point lower, but producer prices were essentially stable. The result was a 3.1% increase in value for wine in Italy’s agricultural branch, compared with 0.9% for the EU figure, a gap of 2.2 percentage points shaped mainly by the different movement in prices.