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Countries which Drink the Most Wine

In which countries does the average person drink the most wine in a given year?
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There is NO DATA for the Vatican
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Bottles / person
Country
78.9
Portugal
77.3
France
69.0
Moldova
64.2
Slovenia
61.6
Luxembourg
59.2
Switzerland
54.2
Italy
52.7
Montenegro
50.3
São Tomé and Príncipe
49.4
Greece
Bottles / person
Country
49.4
Andorra
49.0
Seychelles
48.9
Denmark
45.5
Sweden
45.3
Belgium
43.6
United Kingdom
42.0
Australia
41.4
Argentina
40.3
Austria
39.7
Serbia
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42 Comments
+9
Level ∞
Mar 27, 2024
This quiz is based on combining separate entries from Our World in Data.

https://ourworldindata.org/alcohol-consumption (2018 data)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wine-as-share-alcohol-consumption (2016 data)

For the sake of the quiz, I assumed that wine is 12.5% alcohol.

For "Bottles / person", a bottle is 750 mL and we are only counting people over the age of 15.

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Level 66
Mar 27, 2024
enjoyed this one, 20/20!
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Level 78
Mar 27, 2024
Very surprised to see Spain not on this list!
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Level 65
Apr 24, 2024
I tried it like 4 times XD
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Level 53
Apr 24, 2024
Spain is regarded as a wine country but it is actually a beer country
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Level 75
Apr 24, 2024
people still drink a lot of wine even if beer is preferred ... i mean wine is mass produced all over the country, there's no way we're not on this list
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Level 94
Mar 27, 2024
79 bottles per year?! That's more than a bottle and a half per week!
+16
Level ∞
Mar 27, 2024
One glass a day. Not too much really.

Apparently the average consumption for men in France was more like 1 bottle per day in previous generations.

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Level 82
Mar 29, 2024
A glass a day does seem like quite a lot when you consider that the average is probably brought down by people who don't or can't drink, and by the fact that most people probably don't drink wine *every single day*.
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Level 67
Nov 12, 2024
And there are also other alcoholic drinks, not only wine
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Level 72
Nov 30, 2025
They cook a lot with wine too
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Level 69
Mar 27, 2024
i been drankin
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Level 69
Mar 27, 2024
what is seychelles doing 😭 they're so high on every alcohol ranking
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Level 63
Mar 27, 2024
tourism = bars i think
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Level 69
Mar 27, 2024
SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS 🥂🍷🍻🍾🥃🍺🍸🍹🗣️🗣️🗣️
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Level 63
Mar 27, 2024
all those emojis and not a single one was a shot
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Level 69
Mar 27, 2024
missed argentina
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Level 63
Mar 27, 2024
Not tough enough for you? heres the 15 second version Try taking the Spanish version here!

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1744710/paises-que-beben-mas-vino

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Level 96
Mar 27, 2024
Good thing you noted that there is no data for the Vatican. Between all the wine consumed at Mass (including the stuff that the altar boys like me snuck out of the bottles in the sacristy) and social occasions, I would assume they would rank right up there.
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Level 90
Mar 27, 2024
So, Romania and Moldova are adjacent, ethnically more or less the same, speak the same language, yet Moldovans drink more than twice as much as Romanians? And those sots on Sao Tome... no idea what that's about. It's not overrun with tourists, not even drunken Portuguese ones.
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Level 82
Mar 29, 2024
Romania and Moldova aren't identical.
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Level 55
Feb 6, 2025
Moldova is just one big wine region. Largest supplier of the former USSR I believe (together with Georgia). Also has the largest wine cellar in the world. Romania also has a large wine region adjacent to Moldova but it's a bigger country so I'd say other regions bring the average down.

I went out with some ethnic Russians in Tiraspol and interestingly enough they'd all get some large plastic bottles of wine instead of the vodka their people are associated with.

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Level 45
Apr 1, 2025
Moldova isn't exactly Romanian, it's the middleground between Romania and Ukraine. If you've researched Transnistria you might know of the wine industry there. Also, in general, poor countries drink a lot of achohol so it makes sense that it's so high, even compared to places with more wine.
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Level 86
Mar 28, 2024
How did anyone manage to get Sao Tome without cheating?
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Level 73
Mar 29, 2024
Probably they went for small countries outside of Europe, South America and Oceania. With enough time, you can get through all the Latin America countries and then switch to the small African countries. Or, you know, start with the African ones.
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Level 72
Apr 1, 2024
Purple is almost always Africa in colour-coded quizzes, you have time to guess pretty much all of them. I don't even know why I guessed island countries first, but it paid off.
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Level 76
Apr 24, 2024
I thought green was Africa and purple was Asia. RIP my typing fingers.
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Level 90
Apr 12, 2024
I went for Seychelles because of the tourism industry + small size + relative (for Africa) wealth.

When I got a hit there, I knew that purple was Africa, so I went through a couple of "high likelihood" suspects (South Africa, Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria) then moved on to ones with a small-ish population (Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti...) and pretty quickly got the bingo with São Tomé that way.

Admittedly I was close to running out of time, but I had a few seconds left.

And I most definitely did not cheat.😒

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Level 79
Apr 24, 2024
Once I got Seychelles to work. I thought well another small island country in Africa and I connected it with Portugal right away.
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Level 81
Mar 22, 2026
I first thought purple would be Asia and tried Armenia, Georgia, and Cyprus. When those were wrong and I had checked of Oceania and South America, I went to Africa. There, I first tried Namibia and South Africa because they're the only major African wine producers I know of, and then I went to the islands because they have higher GDP per capita and rich places tend to drink more wine.
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Level 40
Mar 31, 2024
I have been translating your quizzes into Polish for some time

which have no translation, you have nothing against e.g. this one?

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Level 64
Apr 24, 2024
he's probably ok with that, just write in the description that it's not your quiz and you translated it + give the link to the original quiz
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Level 61
Apr 24, 2024
After South Africa wasn't accepted, I was convinced those two countries must be in Asia...kept guessing Israel, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.

Nope.

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Level 31
Apr 25, 2024
If Georgia is not in this list, then you don't know anything about it. Georgians drink from 5 to 10 liters per feast. It has the size of a button😀lol
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Level 71
Mar 18, 2025
I think it's not in this quiz due to the fact that soooo much of the wine they consume is homemade and therefore never gets officially recorded into the data that this quiz pulls from. Because yes, they put up some crazy numbers at the average სუფრა
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Level 55
Feb 6, 2025
I'm surprised other massive wine regions aren't included. I'd have thought Chile and Georgia would've made the list.
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Level 74
Mar 4, 2025
After South Africa didn't work, I ruled out Africa. :|
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Level 76
Apr 15, 2025
Interesting how denmark and sweden are on the list but not norway. Same for spain, portugal france and andorra are there
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Level 28
Jan 11, 2026
Thats all wrong man! google some stats.
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Level 66
Feb 11, 2026
I was surprised by Spain but apparently wine consumption there cratered between the 1970s-80s and about 2012 before it started ticking up a bit. I was honestly surprised not to see South Africa given the Cape Winelands.
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Level 66
Mar 3, 2026
I dont know why but I typed Sao Tome absolutely random at the 5th try or so and it was right.

Also 80 bottles per person and year is a lot more than I excepted. I mean it's about a quarter bottle / one glass every day. And thats only the average. Wow.

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Level 34
Apr 7, 2026
Only missed the African ones. Thought purple was North America because I usually use orange or yellow for Africa. Never would have gotten it. My quiz was mostly just type in every European country then go from there