Throughout the 17th century, wine became one of the most important aspects of Spanish exports to England. The international wine market faced strong competition during the 17th century, so other wine-producing countries such as France and Portugal had to be taken into account, as the prohibition on importing French wines or the increase in tariffs that affected the international wine market should be noted. The port of London, at the end of the 17th century, centralised most of the country’s commercial activity, and between 1672-1681, it alone collected 542,100 pounds sterling out of the 760,000 pounds sterling obtained from the rest of the British ports: between 75-90% of the legal wine imports at the end of the century were made in the Thames. The confrontation between France and England (1679-1685 and 1689-1696), together with the prohibitions on importing French wine, was a decisive factor since, in the mid-1670s, two thirds of the wine arriving in London came from France. Therefore, this situation meant an opening and a benefit for Portuguese and Spanish wines. At the end of the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the Franco-Dutch War, at the end of the 1670s and the beginning of the 1680s, Rhenish wines were the only ones whose natural outlet was through Dutch ports, and they were of some importance.
Collection: Graphics
Project: 2. Social and economic impact of technological revolutions in Europe., 9. Travels and travelers: economic, social and cultural connections.
Chronology: XVII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: https://www.historiaagraria.com/FILE/articulos/HA70_MartinezRuiz.pdf
Resource type: Graph
Format: Line chart
Source: Martínez Ruiz, José Ignacio, «El comercio de vinos entre España e Inglaterra en la segunda mitad del siglo XVII: construcción de una serie anual y primeros resultados», Historia Agraria, 70 (2016), pp. 11–46.
Language: Spanish
Date: 2016
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Copyright: © José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz © Revista de Historia Agraria
Abstract: Wine imports via the port of London from Spain, France, Italy or the Rhineland
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