Just over three months away from the start of the 2025 harvest, and after the recovery seen in 2024, Italian wine stocks are still decreasing far too slowly, standing just below 50 million hectolitres—still too high a level to talk about a market balance, especially in a time of declining consumption. As of April 2025, stocks totalled 49.7 million hectolitres, a figure just 0.5% lower than a year ago and 5.9% down compared to 31 March.
The figures released in the Cantina Italia bulletin, produced by the ICQRF, are based on a database of over 23,000 electronic registers. They show that 58.5% of the wine is stored in northern Italian regions, especially in Veneto, with over half of all the product classified as PDO, 25.9% as PGI, and 17.5% as generic wines. An additional 3.5 million hectolitres of musts are held mainly in the north (58.6%) and the south (32.4%). Two regions—Puglia (30.2%) and Emilia-Romagna (24.1%)—account for 54.3% of the country’s total must stocks.
White wines declining more rapidly
Compared to April 2024, Italy has slightly less PDO wine (-1.2% at 27.4 million hectolitres), slightly more PGI wine (+0.4%), and slightly more table wine (+0.2%). Among the PDO wines, white wines show the sharpest decrease (-3.3%)—a trend that seems to reflect recent shifts in consumer preferences—while stocks of reds and rosés have increased by 0.7% and 2%, respectively. Comparing the figures to March 2025, total PDO wine stocks are down by 5.5%, PGI wines by 6.6%, and table wines by 6.3%. White PDO wines have declined more sharply (-7.8%) than red (-3.5%) and rosé (-3.7%) PDO wines; a similar pattern is seen among PGI wines, while stocks of generic wines are down 6.3%. Must stocks are down by 13.5%, with Puglia (30%), Emilia-Romagna (24%), Piedmont (20%), Veneto (around 12%), and Sicily (7.8%) being the regions with the largest volumes.
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Regions and denominations
According to ICQRF data, as of 30 April 2025, Veneto (28.6%), Tuscany (13.6%), and Puglia (8.9%) are the regions with the largest stocks of PDO and PGI wines. Among protected designation and geographical indication wines, the top ten most-stocked in Italian wine facilities include: Prosecco (4.6 million hectolitres), followed by Puglia PGI (1.8 million), Tuscany PGI (1.7 million), Chianti DOCG (1.3 million), Veneto PGI (1.26 million), Delle Venezie PDO (1.25 million), Salento PGI (1.167 million), Montepulciano d’Abruzzo PDO (1.163 million), Sicily PDO (1.13 million), and Terre Siciliane PGI (1 million hectolitres).
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