wine

Champagne and Prosecco are both sparkling wines, yet Champagne earns roughly four times as much per bottle. Part of the gap is chemistry and time, part is law and branding.

Italy, France, and Spain produce nearly half of all the world's wine. Global production reached 258 million hectolitres in 2023. China is now the world's fifth-largest wine producer. Here's who makes the most wine, how climate change is reshaping the wine map, and which new regions are rising.

Country alcohol comparisons depend on pure-alcohol units, the age range, and estimates of unrecorded drinking. Learn what a per-capita figure can tell you and what it cannot.