American Association of Wine Economists AAWE

Main Still Wine Brands Imported into the U.S., 1990-2024

Global Organic Permanent Cropland (2023).

Paul Kuehn, Kientzheim (Alsace) — Muscat. Pre-1940 label.

Family at the table before the meal, with an aperitif and wine. France, 1930s.

Russia has a history of punishing former Soviet states for pursuing closer ties with the West by banning their wine exports.
Similarly, in 2016 Russia also banned wine imports from Montenegro (shortly before the country joined NATO). Its export share to Russia fell from 22% (2012) to 0% by 2017.

Harvest delivery at the Ikalto Wine Factory, Georgia, 1978 (then the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic). Ikalto is located approx. 12 km west of Telavi, in Kakheti. Photograph by Sergo Edisherashvili. National Archives of Georgia.

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev drinking wine from a drinking horn in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, 1963.

Poster for Burgenländische Weinkost (Burgenland wine tasting), Eisenstadt (Austria), Sep 8-16, 1951 (Wienbibliothek Austria).

Composition of U.S. Beverage Consumption in 2025 by Segment

Auguste Rodin (French 1840-1917) Femme nue dans ses voiles (Naked woman in her veils), c. 1900. Musée Rodin, Paris

In debates on averting further U.S. tariffs—esp on EU wine—some suggest reducing foreign holdings of US Treasury securities (“nuclear option”). 30% of US Treasuries are foreign-held. Leaving aside questions about the effectiveness or drawbacks of this strategy, here are the main foreign creditors.

Moving North-(East): Changes in French Wine Harvests by Department, Average 1974–78 vs. Average 2020–24

JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS: “Sip or smoke: The link between wine consumption and cannabis use” by Sophie Ghvanidze, Milan Ščasný and Jon H. Hanf. Free access: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Albrecht Dürer (German 1471-1528) "The Great Piece of Turf" is a watercolor painting by Albrecht Dürer created at his Nuremberg workshop in 1503. It is a study of a seemingly unordered group of wild plants. The work is considered one of the masterpieces of Dürer's realistic nature studies.

Within Germany’s 2025 Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA), wine and musts account for €1,332 million in farm sales revenue. Overall, wine represents 6.2% of Germany’s plant product sales revenue and 2.2% of total agricultural sales revenue. Note, Germany’s EAA are dominated by milk.

JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS: “China’s wine market: Recent shocks, long-term prospects” by Kym Anderson www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

France’s wine production is shifting north.
Regional Changes in French Wine Production: 1974-78 vs. 2020-24. Compared with the 1974–78 avg, the 2020–24 harvest fell by 35 million hl (−45%), mostly in the south (e.g., Languedoc-Roussillon). In comntrast, wine production in northern regions grew.

1889 Paris Exposition Universelle of superlatives w/ the Eiffel Tower (world's tallest bldg). As a media spectacle, Champagne Mercier hauled in a 200,000 btl barrel from Epernay - drawn by 24 oxen & 12 horses. Mercier owned the rights to “Dom Perignon” and sold them to Moet & Chandon in 1927

JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, Vol 20, No 4, is out.
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Interesting “Data on Swiss grape growers’ production, pest and labour management decisions” by Philipp Höper, Lucca Zachmann, and Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social. Free access:
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Young wine consumers?
Many young Europeans (age between 18-34) live with their parents, esp in southern and eastern Europe; men more than women. The U.S. is at the lower end, 38% of men, 29.7% of women live with their parents. Only GER, FIN, DNK and SWE are lower
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Ernest Chantre (French 1843-1924) Man with a kvevri in Georgia, 1881. Chantre was a prominent archaeologist and anthropologist. This photograph, taken by Captain Barry, shows a man with a kvevri – the traditional vessel used for Georgian winemaking – in the Kakheti region of Georgia.

Converging Per Capita Wine Consumption in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, 1880-2023

Port of Bordeaux, 1910s. Bacalan Quay, viewed from the transporter bridge.
The Bordeaux Port Transporter Bridge was an unfinished project intended to span the Garonne River, Bordeaux, France. Construction commenced in 1910, dismantled by German forces in August 1942.

Here is a photo of the dormant vineyard at Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, located right beside the terminal buildings. The vineyard is jointly maintained and co-owned by the airport authority and the regional chamber of commerce. The wine produced from it is called "La Croix de Guyenne"

Here is a photo of the dormant vineyard at Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, located right beside the terminal buildings. The vineyard is jointly maintained and co-owned by the airport authority and the regional chamber of commerce. The wine produced from it is called "La Croix de Guyenne"

This day, 106 years ago, on Jan 17, 1920, National U.S. Prohibition goes into effect. The U.S. "All Liquor Stains Wiped from Stars and Stripes." The entire U.S. will stay dry for almost 14 years, until Prohibition is appealed on December 5, 1933.

My wine economics class at Bordeaux Sciences Agro in Bordeaux. www.agro-bordeaux.fr/fiche-pedago...

Raffaello Sorbi (Italian 1844–1931) La festa della vendemmia (The Harvest Dance) 1893. Note the "married vines" -- trained on trees.

Global Land-Ocean Mean Temperatures (1880-2025)