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Global wine consumption set to increase by 2 billion bottles

The United States has become the largest wine market by volume. With consumption reaching 311.3 million 9-liter cases, equivalent to 3.735 billion bottles in 2011, the U.S. became the largest wine consumer market in the world. It beat Italy and France into second and third largest wine markets respectively in 2011. Nearly 2 billion more bottles of wine will be consumed in the world between 2010 and 2015. In 2010, total world wine consumption reached 2.640 billion 9-liter cases.

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