Manzanilla is consolidated as the most commercialized wine from Marco de Jerez in the first quarter and throughout the last twelve months. According to sales data from the Regulatory Council, the fine wine occupies the second position in both classifications, followed by the cream.
Sales of biologically bred wines exceed 50% of the total during the first four months of the year. Specifically, 4.6 million liters have been sold, which represents 52.4% of the total.
There are several ways to classify wines in the Marco de Jerez. These may be based on the Denomination of Origin that protects them (Jerez-Xérez-Sherry and Manzanilla Sanlúcar de Barrameda), their biological or oxidative aging, or the type of wine, such as fino, manzanilla or cream. However, perhaps the latter is the one that best reflects the current reality of these wines, in accordance with the evolution of the markets in recent times.
Within the various types, manzanilla stands out as the best-selling wine from Marco, driven mainly by the Spanish market. This variety, which can only be produced in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, leads sales with close to 2.9 million liters up to April, which represents 32.4% of the total. It is followed by fino, with sales in the first quarter that fell below 1.8 million, which in its case is equivalent to 20% of the total.
Both wines, classified in the category of organically aged wines, represent more than half of the sales from January to April, specifically 52.4% of the total, with 4.6 million liters altogether of the 8.8 million totaling the wines protected by the appellations of origin of the Framework in the reference period.
Chamomile sales, driven by its popularity in Spain (which concentrates 96% of its sales), have increased by 7.5% in the first four months of the year. In the same period, sales of fine grain have fallen by 3.9%, due to a 14.4% decrease in its exports, despite the fact that in the domestic market there has been an increase of 12.9% (its exports represent 60% of its total sales).
According to accumulated sales in the last year up to April, Manzanilla de Sanlúcar also leads, with cellar sales of 7.3 million liters and an increase of 9.20%. For its part, fine wine exceeds 5.6 million liters in the last twelve months, although with a decrease of 7.3%. Biologically aged wines represent 47% of total sales for this period.
Cream, the third best-selling wine from Marco, closed the first four months of the year with an increase of 10.6% and just over 1.6 million liters. To a large extent, this growth is due to the increase in inventories in the United Kingdom, its main market. However, in the last year, cream sales have decreased by 28.7%, totaling 5.5 million liters.
The fourth place in sales is occupied by the medium, the only one that loses ground in the period from January to April with 1.3 million liters (-6.65%). The drop in the medium in the last year increased to 14.8% with 4.5 million litres.
Pale cream and Pedro Ximénez rank fifth and sixth respectively in sherry sales, both in the first four-month period and in the last year. In the first case, sales from January to April exceed 0.4 million after an increase of 52%, while in the second, sales amount to 0.3 million with a rebound of 82.7%, the greatest among all wines. In the last year, pale cream reached close to 1.9 million liters after a drop of 11.2%, unlike the 9.6% increase experienced by Pedro Ximénez, which far exceeds 1.2 million liters. liters.
In seventh and eighth place, with more moderate sales volumes, are oloroso and amontillado, both traditional dry sherry wines. These end the first four months of the year with sales of approximately 260,000 and 130,000 liters, respectively, after increases of 13.3% and 17.5%.
Sales of oloroso in the accumulated year to April fell by 0.3%, to 760,000 liters, while those of amontillado fell by close to 7% with a volume of slightly less than half a million liters.
The destination of the sales of the Marco wines during the period from January to April differs significantly from the previous ranking, although manzanilla and fino maintain the first two positions in the Spanish market, followed by cream, but with oloroso and Pedro Ximénez in fourth and fifth place.
Manzanilla occupies the sixth position in exports in the first quarter, led by medium and cream, followed by fino, pale cream and Pedro Ximénez.
Accumulated sales in the last year in the Spanish market are led by manzanilla and fino, with cream and Pedro Ximénez in third and fourth position. They are followed by oloroso and amontillado, in fifth and sixth place, respectively.
Regarding exports in the accumulated year, the medium is the best-selling sherry, followed by the cream and the fine. Pale cream and Pedro Ximénez rank fourth and fifth, followed by manzanilla, oloroso and amontillado.
