# Grapes & wine and Sulfur

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/grapes-and-wine-and-sulfur/

[Grapes & wine](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/grapes/) (commodity) and [Sulfur](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/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.