As the AEVP commented, this is due to the fact that the sales of Port Wine in 2018 were lower by 4%. They mentioned that the sales to the UK went down by 24% - which I nearly can't believe. Brexit related?
Well, let's hope for the growers that the price per pipa increases, to help them to maintain their already low revenue from growing the grapes.
Every one of us that travels from time to time to Portugal sees the incredible growth of tourism... many of these tourists enjoy a few glasses of Port during their trip... Now imagine how bad the Port Wine sales figures would be if this tourism-growth wouldn't have happened...
I think it's now our duty as FTLOP community to save the day and to drink even more Port than we did before... :)
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