Exports from Portugal’s wine sector are estimated to have totalled 930 million euros last year, up 8.6 per cent compared to 2020, according to Informa D&B.

France, the US and the UK are the main foreign markets, each with a share of more than 10 per cent of Portugal’s wine exports.

The sector’s trade surplus increased to 770 million euros, because wine imports fell to 163 million euros, 1.8 per cent less than the previous year.

Informa D&B stated that “the volume of wine production in the 2021-2022 campaign amounted to 7.3 million hectolitres, up 14.2 per cent on the previous campaign, which had registered a drop of around 2 per cent,” with “the Douro/Porto and Lisbon regions being the most important, accounting for 20 per cent of the total volume each.

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