“Cantina Italia’s stocks” fall: on 15 May 2019, 51 million hectolitres of wine

51.3 million hectolitres of wine, of which more than half is PDO wine (25.7 million hectolitres), 13.2 of PGI, and 12.3 of varietal and common wines: this was the state of the art, on May 15, 2019, of wine stocks in wineries in the Belpaese, according to the latest update of the "Cantina Italia" bulletin of the Quality Control and Fraud Repression Inspectorate, based on data from the Telematic Register. Of which 12.8 are located in the cellars of Veneto, more than twice as many as those “in dowry” to Emilia Romagna, 6.2, ahead of Tuscany (5.16 million hectoliters), Puglia (5.13) and Piedmont (4.2). Prosecco DOC, as always, dominates among the Denominations, with 3.4 million hectoliters, more than double the second denomination with more wine in the cellar, namely Terre Siciliane, with 1.58 million hectoliters, ahead of the wines Delle Venezie, with 1.53. In the “Top 10”, also the IGP Puglia (1.48 million hectoliters), Veneto (1.45) and Tuscany (1.38), Montepulciano d'Abruzzo (1.31), Doc Sicily (1.29), Chianti (1.26) and IGP Salento (1.192). Before the denominations under one million hectolitres in the cellar, the DOCG of Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore, with 812,742 hectolitres of wine.