Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Italian wine Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Italian wine in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Italian wine has an estimated audience of 3,593,723 people in Italy.

The average Italian wine fan in Italy is 44.4 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lazio.

The audience is concentrated in Lazio, Lombardy, Campania.

Top brand affinities include Mediterranean Sea, La Repubblica, Rome, with strongest over-indexing on Mediterranean Sea (1.7× the country average).

Demographically, the Italian wine audience skews balanced with an average age of 44.4, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Indulgence, Spirituality.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 19 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Italian wine fan in Italy is balanced, around 44.4 years old, with strong Indulgence tendencies and a notable affinity for Mediterranean Sea.

Category: Food & Beverages · Type: Topic · Subtype: Wine

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Italian wine profile in Italy.

Audience size
3.6M
in Italy
Gender
48.5%
51.5% male
Age
44.4
average years
Country rank
#1963
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-26%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Italian wine fans

48.5% are female, 51.5% are male, average age 44.4.

Fig. 02

Gender split

48.5%
Female
51.5%
Male
Demographic split for Italian wine audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female48.5%
Male51.5%
Average age44.4
Estimated audience size3,593,723
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 44.4
average years
Age distribution of the Italian wine audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-199%
20-2916%
30-3920%
40-4922%
50+33%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

21.7%

of the worldwide Italian wine audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Italian wine
CountryShare
United States23.0%
Italy21.7%
United Kingdom7.3%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Italy average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Italian wine audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Italian wine fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Tuscany~400K1.47×
02Lazio~600K1.31×
03Aosta Valley~10K1.26×
04Veneto~300K1.09×
05Basilicata~30K1.05×
06Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~70K1.01×
07Umbria~60K1.00×
08Liguria~100K0.96×
09Abruzzo~80K0.96×
10Friuli-Venezia Giulia~60K0.96×
11Calabria~100K0.94×
12Sardinia~90K0.94×
13Marche~80K0.94×
14Lombardy~600K0.91×
15Campania~400K0.90×
16Sicilia~300K0.89×
17Puglia~200K0.89×
18Piedmont~200K0.88×
19Emilia-Romagna~300K0.86×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Italian wine audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Italian wine audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Television channelMovies & TV3.19×
02Sparkling wineFood & Beverages3.05×
03ChefFood & Beverages2.31×
04Top-level domainTechnology & Electronics2.03×
05LeggoNews1.95×
06VeganismFood & Beverages1.89×
07Il MessaggeroNews1.84×
08WineFood & Beverages1.81×
09SicilyTravel & Leisure1.77×
10La StampaNews1.76×
11La RepubblicaNews1.75×
12Catholic ChurchPolitics & Society1.74×
13Corriere della SeraNews1.73×
14Mediterranean SeaTravel & Leisure1.70×
15Il Fatto QuotidianoNews1.67×
16Italian cuisineFood & Beverages1.56×
17RomeTravel & Leisure1.53×
18HotelsTravel & Leisure1.53×
19VideoMovies & TV1.50×
20NaplesTravel & Leisure1.50×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Italian wine audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Italian wine audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
IndulgenceJOY1.87×
SpiritualityBALANCE1.78×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM1.55×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Italian wine audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Price SensitivityPREMIUM0.98×
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER1.02×
Pet OwnershipJOY1.11×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Italian wine have in Italy?

Italian wine has an estimated audience of 3,593,723 people in Italy, concentrated in Lazio and Lombardy.

02

What is the gender split and age of Italian wine fans?

48.5% of Italian wine fans are female, 51.5% are male, with an average age of 44.4 years.

03

Which brands do Italian wine fans like most?

Italian wine fans show strongest brand affinity for Mediterranean Sea (1.7×), La Repubblica (1.75×), and Rome (1.53×) over the country average.

04

Where do Italian wine fans live in Italy?

Italian wine fans in Italy are most concentrated in Lazio (reach ~600K), Lombardy (reach ~600K), and Campania (reach ~400K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Italian wine fans also like?

Beyond Italian wine itself, the audience over-indexes on La Repubblica (1.75×), Rome (1.53×), Corriere della Sera (1.73×), and Wine (1.81×) compared to the Italy average.

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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Italian wine. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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