“Wine Package” to go? Inside the EU proposal to rescue Europe’s wine sector

The European Commission has presented a draft regulation known as the Wine Package, aimed at addressing a range of challenges facing the EU wine sector. Will this major piece of legislation be the right recipe to forge a brighter future? In 2024, as the EU wine sector was facing an accumulating series of challenges, the European Commission called for a High Level Meeting on wine policy. The outcome of that process was the Commission’s presentation of its proposal for a Wine Package early in 2025. This draft regulation has raised high expectations, aimed at revitalising the EU wine sector in th...