How much wine do Italians drink a day? (place, people, German)

[Arabel]

I was reading an article that stated Italians drink (on average) 1-3 glasses of wine a day. My sister lived in Italy back in the 90s, she said it was closer to a bottle a day & probably more (a little bit at lunch and mostly with dinner). On average, how much wine do Italians consume in a day?

[Dry Heat]

One bottle? That's nonsense.

Let's do some maths.
Wine consumption in Italy: about 2.2 billion litres per year.
Population (including children): about 60 million.
That means the average Italian drinks about 37 litres of wine per year.
That means the average Italian drinks about 0.1 litres of wine per day.
That's it.

You might want to double or even treble that figure in order to exclude children and teetotallers ( even though that would be wrong since statistics are made considering the entire population): 0.3 l is less than half a bottle anyway.

[elnina]

^^^ I agree.
and: Italian Wine Consumption Hits Record Lows

[VT22]

Too much

[ABQConvict]

It could be a bottle on a day a hypothetical Italian drinks, but then the volume is tempered by days without, or with very little, wine.

I know when I open a bottle of wine, it is gone. But I only drink wine a couple of days a week.

[The Postman]

'A bottle?' Makes it sound like a nation of alcoholics, which I definitely did not get the impression. What did you sister base it on, anecdotal experience? The few people she observed? Never take that sort of observation in place of stats.

I would say 1-3 glasses a day for the average adult sounds pretty reasonable.

[GER308]

I think it is probably similar to Germany in that general alcohol consuption has been going down but "Problem" drinking particularly amoung youths is going up.

1 bottle a day is not really that much is it, I mean if you drink a glass at lunch, a few glasses and dinner the bottle is empty and you are not even drunk.

[cloxias]

Italians consume as much wine as the French.

Only that Italians are more healthier and more disciplined but that is not to say the French are far less healthy.

Italians (especially Calabrese, Sicilians, Maltese and Sardinians) would consume less wine than their mainland Italian counterparts.

[Italian (x)lurker]

It very depends and recently the rate has dropped
youngsters prefer to drink beers

I drink very rarely, once a week maybe...

for what I've learned people used to drink wine when they worked hard i.e. long time ago, peasants, miners, labourers, you know...

there are still niches of people who do, for examples bricklayers

[amaroW]

Top 10
Wine consumers

1)Luxembourg 51 litres a year
2)France
3)Portugal
4)Italy 35 litres a year
5)Croatia
6)Slovania
7) DK
8)Austria
9)belgium
10)greece