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Declining Wine Consumption

🌎 Premium Wine in a World of Less: Why Declining Consumption Can Be Good News for Top Bottles

Global wine consumption continues to fall in 2026, but the real story for premium European and Californian wineries is not collapse – it is a sharper, more selective demand that increasingly rewards quality, identity, and storytelling.

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