Spain
Summary
1 - CAVA vinyeards
2 - The sparkling wine production and marketing
3 - The sparkling wine consumption
4 - The sparkling wine importations
5 - The sparkling wine exportations
6 - Business organization in sparkling wine industry (soils included)
7 - Business opportunities for the viti-vinicole development
CAVA = 95% of Spanish sparkling wine production
99% of CAVA production is made in Catalogna
Grape varieties: blanc (Macabeo, Xarel-lo, Parellada), red (Garnacha, Monastrell - Pinot noir and Trepat for rosé wines)
2 - The Sparkling wine production and marketing
Production
220 million of bottles of CAVA (2010)
Winemaking techniques: Traditional Method
7 different types of cava
Main producers: Freixenet and Cordorniu
Marketing
245 million of spanish CAVA sold (+11.5% compared with 2009) around the world. Spain only represented 39 % of volume (an increase of 8,4%) (2010).
3 - The sparkling wine consumption
99.4 million of bottles (2010)
Table wine have been decreasing for the benefit of wines with denomination of its origins
Regionalism phenomenon: consumption of cava very high in its original area and in Madrid
Points of sales terminals: large markets and supermarkets
4 - The sparkling wine importations
8.5 million of bottles (2007)
Suppliers: France (in value) and Italy (in volume)
5 - The sparkling wine exportations
174 million of bottles (2007)
Exportations of cava have been increasing regularly
149.2 million bottles sold in export markets (+14% of increase compared with 2009), that 62% of bottles produced in Spain (2010)
Major consumer countries of CAVA (2010):
Germany, 1st foreign market with 41 million of bottles (+18% compared with 2009), Belgium with 21 million of bottles (+35%), France with 3.8 million of bottles (+15 %). Only for United-Kindgom, the market is decrease by (-2 %).
Main customer: Germany
6 - Business organizations in sparkling wine industry (soils included)
Consejo Regulador del Cava
Institut del Cava
Federacion espanola del Vino
Correspondence language: spanish
7 - Business opportunities for the viti-vinicole development
Development of the sparkling wine production, appellation CAVA origins no included
Small producers organize a policy to increase the quality of production.
Ubifrance: november, 2008
Updating: November, 2011
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