The wine market closes 2025 amidst tariffs, a short harvest, and the European package.

The wine sector has experienced a year of lights and shadows, facing challenges such as tariff wars, one of the shortest harvests in its history, and the approval of a wine package in the European Union that supports the European and national sector. In figures, the Spanish wine harvest was reduced to 31 million hectoliters; so far, in the first three months of the 2025/2026 campaign, from August to October, wine production has fallen by 8.1% to 27.48 million hectoliters compared to the same period in 2024. On the consumption side, Spaniards have reduced it by 3.2%, to 9.5 million hectoliters, according to data from the Interprofessional Organization of Wine of Spain (OIVE). For the president of the OIVE, Fernando Ezquerro, this year has been an exercise in "contrasts", marked by a "complex" global environment with factors such as the war in Ukraine, trade and tariff tensions, in which despite all these difficulties the sector has once again demonstrated "its strength, capacity ...