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Champagne sales surge at New Year — but labor abuses and tariffs have clouded the industry

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Reports of human trafficking and the mistreatment of workers, and even several deaths during the 2023 harvest, provoked scandal around the Champagne industry.

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Diving to the heart of a case that reveals the dark reverse of Champagne In 2023, 57 seasonal workers — mostly undocumented — are piled up in an unhealthy house in the heart of the Marne, awakened every day at dawn to go to harvest...

The vintage champagne market experienced a difficult new year, after the 2023s and 2024s marked by a fall in prices and demand, which followed a particularly successful period for producers during the coronavirus pandemic, when the accumulation of savings and access to cheap loans had contributed to an increase in demand — and hence prices. The extension of this trend was reinforced by the tariffs put in place by Donald Trump. Since August, most…

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lemediatv.fr broke the news in on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
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