Lanzarote produces 1.5 million bottles of wine per year, and half of them stay on the island, according to statistics from the Regulatory Council published by the Lanzarote Data Center.
While the amount sold in Lanzarote has remained stable at around half of the production over the last decade, the liters that go to the rest of the Canary Islands have been decreasing, while sales to the peninsula and abroad have increased.
If in 2015 the rest of the Canary Islands bought 45% of Lanzarote's wine, in recent years its share has been closer to 40%.
Precisely that percentage difference is what has increased the production that travels to the peninsula and outside the country.
The bottles that go to the peninsula have gone from representing 3% of the total to reaching 5.2% of production in ten years.
Abroad there has also been a modest increase from 2% in 2015 to 3.1% in the last year.
The bottles that are sent outside the country are still a small part of the production, but if you look at the oldest published data, those from 2009, there has been a notable increase since then it only reached 0.7%.