With a normal harvest, producers warn of a surplus reaching<\/strong> 90 million hectoliters<\/strong> in cellars by this autumn\u2014the equivalent of nearly two full harvests\u2014risking a negative balance of half a billion euros between 2025 and 2024. The crisis is compounded by declining global consumption and the looming threat of international trade tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In response, Lamberto Frescobaldi<\/strong>, the newly re-elected president of Unione Italiana Vini <\/strong>(UIV)\u2014an association representing over 800 members and 85% of Italy’s wine exports<\/strong>\u2014has called for urgent and profound structural reforms, including a comprehensive review of Italy’s primary wine law, the Testo Unico del Vino<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Given the decline in global consumption, we can no longer afford to flood ‘Cantina Italia<\/strong>‘ with 50-million-hectoliter harvests, which has been our production average for the last 25 years,” Frescobaldi stated during the Unione Italiana Vini<\/a><\/strong> National Assembly.<\/strong> “Now is the time to launch a plan to revise the Testo Unico del Vino<\/em> in coherence with the current market situation.” Frescobaldi emphasized that the primary goal is to “innovate the wine ecosystem in a competitive key<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n