That’s a simple question, but it’s surprisingly difficult to answer. Wine is one of the world’s most regulated products, encountering several touch points from grape to glass, each having the potential to increase its costs. For starters, farming grapes involves land, labor, and transportation costs. That cost is increased by sorting through fruit to remove unwanted items (such as unripe grapes, or things you’d rather not have liquefied, like lizards), and fermenting, aging, bottling, and storing the juice once pressed. Generally speaking, the more expensive the raw materials are, the more expensive the resulting wine will be.
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Infographic by: fix