Hungary has heavily subsidized its wine exports and is selling 40 percent of its production on the world market.

Australia has a large wine industry, and the value of wine exports surpassed A$2.3 billion in 2002-2003.

Chile's total wine exports were estimated at more than $130 million in 1993.

In 2000, the latest year for which figures are available, wine exports earned $5.25 billion.

But in 1996 the volume of Italian wine exports plummeted by 25 percent.

France's total wine exports declined for the first time in a decade last year.

In 2011, Israeli wine exports totaled over $26.7 million.

At the time, Spanish wine exports provided one fourth of Spain's foreign trade revenue.

The Commission intends to support wine exports and certain labels.

At present, they average 240,000 cases yearly, a minuscule 2 percent of all Greek wine exports.