Evolución Reciente del Mercado Mundial de Vinos y el desempeño de Argentina

How did the wine world market perform in the last decades in terms of production, international trade, prices and consumption? What happened with Argentina’s wine industry in the same period? To answer these questions, we categorize countries and analyze FAO statistics from 1961 on. We verify that production, exports and consumption had displaced from traditional Old World traditional producers to New World. Production has decreased in volume, consumption has tended to reduce its dispersion regionally, the internationalization of the market had tripled in a little more than half a century and quality –proxy by export relative prices- has increased on average and has reduced its dispersion with respect to world average and to the prices of the more reputed producer and exporter. Resumen: ?Cual ha sido la evolucion del mercado mundial de vinos en las ultimas decadas en materia de produccion, comercio internacional, precios y consumo? ?Que ha ocurrido con Argentina en ese periodo? Se responden estas preguntas categorizando los paises y analizando estadisticas compiladas por FAO desde 1961. Se verifica que produccion, exportaciones y consumo se ha desplazado desde productores tradicionales del Viejo Mundo al Nuevo Mundo, que la produccion ha bajado en cantidad, el consumo ha tendido a reducir su dispersion regional, que se ha triplicado el nivel de internacionalizacion del mercado en algo mas de cinco decadas y que la calidad –aproximada por precios relativos de exportacion- parece haber aumentado en promedio y reducido su dispersion respecto del promedio mundial y de los precios del productor de maxima reputacion.