You know, France was once the largest wine-producing region in Europe. The fact that Spanish wine could occupy one-third of the French wine market is enough to prove how rapidly Spain's wine industry has developed over this period.
Of course, apart from Spain, other countries' wine industries have also seen significant growth during this time.
The most notable among them are the wine industries of Italy and Portugal; these three countries in Southern Europe are among the few wine-exporting countries not affected by phylloxera.
However, unlike Spain, whose wine is sold to France, Portuguese wine is mostly exported to the British mainland, while Italian wine goes to Austria and Germany.
While wine exports exceeded one million tons, domestic wine sales in Spain also reached an astonishing 276,000 tons, which is 368 million bottles of wine.
