Wine in 2025: A Year Told Month by Month by Winemag

2025 was a transitional year for Italian and international wine. Not a simple cyclical slowdown, but a deeper phase of transformation that challenged production models, narratives, and established certainties. This is why Winemag has chosen to tell its story once again month by month, through a series of twelve articles that will retrace—starting tomorrow, January 1, 2026—the key events of the year, as they were covered in our pages.

The series will collect and synthesize content from the Wine News and International – News & Wine sections, providing a continuous chronicle of wine industry news from January to December 2025. A journalistic reconstruction that follows the real evolution of the themes, crises, and decisions that marked the wine sector throughout the past year.

From the first signs of tension in consumption and denominations, through the debate on crisis distillations, yields, and inventories, to the 2025 harvest and year-end reviews, each monthly article will offer a snapshot of a specific moment. A time-based narrative that will line up facts, positions, and progressive changes, including an international perspective, because wine’s challenges did not stop at Italian borders.

Throughout the series, the image will emerge of a mature sector called to confront a structural shift: lower volumes, greater market selectivity, less loyal consumers, and growing polarization between those who manage to maintain value and those who struggle to find it. Themes that will also be examined through contributions and authoritative voices from the international scene.

This series aims to be a tool for understanding and memory. A journey designed for those who work in wine, for those who observe it closely, and for those who want to understand why 2025 represents a turning point. Twelve articles, twelve months. One common thread: telling the story of wine by following the facts, without rhetoric and without shortcuts.