“Cantina Italia”: on October 31 47.7 million of hectoliters of stocked wine (+7% on 2025)

While awaiting the official figures for the 2026 Italian grape harvest, which, according to WineNews rumours, will only be released after harvest declarations (November 30th) or even production declarations (legally due by December 15th), the latest “Cantina Italia” bulletin from Icqrf, based on electronic cellar registers, continues to be updated and points to a certain wine surplus in storage. As of October 31st, 2026 (basing on 23,665 cellar registers, ed), Italian wineries stocked 47.7 million hectoliters of wine (+7.2% compared to October 31st, 2025), 15.8 million hectoliters of musts (+10.6%), and 13.7 million hectoliters of new wine still undergoing fermentation (-4%).
This represents a significant volume of wine, which has continued to grow for several months, partly because market demand is no longer absorbing production at the pace seen in the past. According to the data, 61.2% of all wine stocks are held in Northern Italy, primarily in Veneto. Wines with PDO status account for 56.9% of total stocks, while PGI wines represent 25.6%. Varietal wines make up just 1.6% of the total, with the remaining 16% consisting of other categories of wine.
As it is often the case, a relatively small number of PDOs and PGIs (20 out of 523) account for 59.6% of total inventories. Prosecco DOC tops the list (one of the few denominations which continues to post market growth in 2026), with 4.9 million hectoliters in stock, representing 12.5% of the total. It is followed by Puglia IGT, Toscana IGT, and Delle Venezie DOC, each with more than 1.4 million hectoliters in stock (each one accounting for 3.7% of total wine stocks).