“Cantina Italia” holds 58.5 million hectoliters of wine as of 31 December 2018, the report says

According to the “Bollettino Cantina Italia number 22” of the inspectorate department for quality protection and fraud repression, ICQRF, as of December 31, 2018, based on data from the Telematic Register, Italy has in its cellars 44.1 million hectoliters of wine, 29 million of which are PDO wines (reds and whites in equal amounts, and 472.676 liters of rosé wines), and 14.9 PGI wines (8.1 million hectoliters of white wines, 6.2 million hectoliters of reds, and 562.055 hectoliters of rosés) to which must be added 14.3 million hectoliters of table and varietal wines, for a grand total of 58.5 million hectoliters of wine. The leading and richest Region is by far Veneto, which counts one liter of wine out of four totaling 15.3 million hectoliters of wine in its cellars, ahead of Emilia Romagna, (6.5), Puglia (6.2) , Tuscany (5.1) Sicily (4.7) and Piedmont (4.4). Among the PDO and PGI wines, at the absolute top is Prosecco DOC, counting 4.5 million hectoliters, way ahead of the DOC delle Venezie (1.9) and TGI Terre Siciliane (1.9), TGI Veneto ( 1.7), TGI Puglia (1.6), DOC Sicilia (1.6), Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (1.4), TGI Salento (1.4), TGI Toscana (1.3), Chianti DOCG (1.2), TGI Rubicone (1.06) and Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG (1.02), to mention only those whose “stocks” exceed one million hectoliters.