Ireland - The Irish Wine Association published its long-awaited industry fact-sheet recently. Drinks Industry Ireland takes a look at wine’s performance over the past 12 months.2009 proved a another “challenging” year for the wine industry here with total wine sales falling again from 8.4 million nine litre cases to 7.6 million, a fall of 9.5 per cent, according to the 2009 Irish Wine Market report from the Irish Wine Association. 2008‘s wine sales were themselves down 4.1 per cent from the 8.7 million case figure in 2007.