Wine sales down by 12 million bottles

13th April 2009, 11:24am

Year-on-year figures have shown that volume sales of wine are down 1%, the equivalent of 12 million bottles.

In the 12 months ending 21st March 2009, the statistics from Nielsen highlighted how 96 million fewer cases of wine were bought in the last year. 

Despite overall value sales increasing these figures released last week show the toll the recession has taken on the wine sector. 

The biggest brands effected were Hardy's which saw a 17% drop in sales and a 21% drop in volume. Stowells also saw volume sales drop 26%.

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