Made in Italy wine flies around the world with a 12% increase in sales abroad despite the war in Ukraine and the winds of recession, but the traumatic increase in costs weighs on the accounts of companies, from bottles to caps, from labels to packaging.This is what emerges from Coldiretti's analysis of Istat data on the first four months of 2022 compared to the same period last year on the occasion of the start of the harvest with the detachment of the first bunch in the Faccoli farm in via Cava a Coccaglio, in Franciacorta. Brescia in Lombardy.For the first time, the value of exports of Italian bottles could reach 8 billion euros in 2022 according to Coldiretti's projections also driven by growth in the United States, which is the main market outside the EU.On the European continent, on the other hand - Coldiretti underlines - Made in Italy wine finds its largest consumer in Germany, but it also grows in the home of our first competitors as France records a strong increase in purchases of Italian bottles (+ 37%) and in the United Kingdom, despite Brexit, consumption jumped by + 31% in the first quarter driven by the great success of bubbles, but not only.An international appreciation that has resulted in the spread of products that exploit Italian sounding that cause losses estimated to be over a billion euros on world markets without counting the risks associated with requests for recognition of denominations that evoke Made in Italy excellence - recalls Coldiretti - as in the case of the Croatian Prosek.But stopping the race of Italian wine is above all the exponential growth of costs with an average + 35% due to the tension on energy and raw materials generated by the war in Ukraine with unilateral increases by packaging suppliers which - explains Coldiretti - they come to weigh on the budgets for over a billion euros with also difficulties in finding bottling materials.A glass bottle costs more than 30% more than last year, while the price of corks has exceeded 20% for cork ones and even 40% for those of other materials.For the cages for sparkling wine corks, the increases are in the order of 20% but for labels and packaging cartons there are respectively increases of 35% and 45%, according to the Coldiretti analysis.Problems also for the purchase of machinery, especially steel ones, prevalent in cellars, for which it has become impossible even to have estimates.Road transport has also increased by 25% to which is added - continues Coldiretti - the worrying situation of container and sea freight costs, with increases ranging from 400% to 1000%."To defend the Italian wine heritage it is necessary to intervene to contain the expensive energy and production costs with immediate and structural interventions to plan the future" underlined the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, underlining that "protecting wine means protecting the main element driving force for the entire agri-food system not only abroad but also on the domestic market, starting with the tourism sector ".Copyright © 2015 - 2022 - Associated Newspaper Anso Tuttifrutti Advertising Agency Tel. +39 0544 509611 - redazione@ravennanotizie.it Registered at the Court of Ravenna N ° 1275 Director in charge: Nevio Ronconi VAT number: 00238160394