The Ministry of Agriculture's first Wine Yearbook brings together production, employment and foreign trade data for the sector
Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) published the 2026 Wine Yearbook on September 8, 2026, the first edition of a publication devoted solely to the country's wine chain, with consolidated data for 2025. The document gathers information on registered establishments and products, production, employment and foreign trade, and joins the yearbooks the ministry already kept for beer, cachaça and non-alcoholic beverages.
Brazil had 965 registered wineries in 2025, spread across 327 municipalities. Rio Grande do Sul was home to 600 establishments, or 62.2% of the total, followed by Santa Catarina, with 102, and São Paulo, with 86. In Sipeagro, the ministry's registration system, there were 16,258 wines on file — 10,855 from Rio Grande do Sul, 1,898 from Santa Catarina and 1,413 from São Paulo. Declared production exceeded 300 million liters and the chain accounted for 7,361 direct jobs in the year.
The yearbook also lays bare the trade imbalance. Brazilian wine exports totaled 7.35 million liters and US$ 13.8 million, up 25.9% in volume, with shipments to 85 countries; Paraguay alone took 62.52% of that volume, 4.59 million liters. Imports came to 165.66 million liters and US$ 560.7 million, up 3.4% in volume. The average price per liter exported was US$ 1.88 and per liter imported US$ 3.38, according to data compiled by the website A Vindima.
The ministry's rationale is to bring together in a single database data that was previously scattered across different systems.
By integrating and systematizing data from different official databases, we now have a broader, more consistent and integrated view of the national grape and wine chain.Fernanda Spinelli, of Mapa's technical team and Brazil's scientific delegate to the OIV, in an interview reproduced by the website A Vindima
Labels such as Miolo Lote 43, Casa Valduga Terroir Cabernet Sauvignon and Aurora Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon come precisely from Rio Grande do Sul, the state that accounts for nearly two-thirds of the country's registered wineries.
Sources: A Vindima (09/08/2026), Agrolink (09/2026), SpaceMoney (09/2026).
