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Grapes & wine and Sulfur

Their prices have moved together.

Grapes & wine (commodity) and Sulfur (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: crop protection

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Sulphur is sprayed on vines against mildew and used as sulphur dioxide to preserve wine. The sulphur series is a sulphuric acid index driven by fertiliser demand, not vineyard use, and shows a weak negative link: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.20.

  • -0.20 monthly change correlation
  • -0.23 12-month change correlation
  • 0.16 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.