In 2017, Swiss residents downed 249 million litres of wine, around 37 litres per resident over the age of 19¹. This equates to roughly one bottle of wine per week.

Statistics from 2015 show that 13.8% of the nation don’t consume alcohol. If this is factored in average weekly wine consumption by those who do drink rises to 1.16 bottles.

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Total wine consumption in 2017 was 4 million litres lower (-1.6%) than the year before.

87 million litres of the total (35%) was produced in Switzerland. 163 million litres of it was imported, mainly from Italy (41%), France (21%) and Spain (17%) – 79% of imports came from these three.

Switzerland’s largest wine producing cantons are Valais, Vaud and Geneva. In 2017, these three cantons accounted for 69% of Switzerland’s grape growing area: Valais (33%), Vaud (26%) and Geneva (10%).

Switzerland’s most important wine grape varieties are: Chassela/Gutadel (61%), Müller-Thurgau/Riesling-Sylvaner (8%), Chardonnay (6%). In 2017, these three white wine grapes accounted for 75% of the total.

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¹ Switzerland’s population by age bracket – Federal Statistical Office

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