Did You Know: The World's Biggest Red Wine consumers are Chinese

But a really small country is rocking first place per capita basis.........

The Chinese drank their way to a record 155 million 9-litre cases of red wine in 2013, thereby surpassing the French whose consumption decreased by 18% to 150 million cases.  The increasing popularity of red wine in China is largely due to the fact that red is considered to be a lucky color.  this symbolic importance combined with the health improving virtues of the drink, encourage Chinese to grab a bottle from the supermarket shelf more and more often.

Can you guess who the biggest wine consumers in the world are?????????

Well, while Italy is the World's biggest wine producer, Italian are only #4 on our wine consumers list surpassed by France and Portugal.

When it comes to the biggest US wine consumers the leaders are:  California, New York followed by Florida.  France still drink more wine (all categories) per capita than the Chinese with 53 liters per capita per years versus 1.9 in China.

But which country drinks the most wines per capita??????????

The Vatican with 74 liters per capita per year which is about 99 bottles of 75cl per year!!!!!!!!!!!!