French harvest 2025: Volumes to jump as Burgundy, Champagne recover

France wine harvests set for growth in 2025

France’s ministerial statistical service for agriculture (Agreste) has forecast up to a 17% hike in volumes for its 2025 wine harvest.

French harvest 2025: Volumes to jump as Burgundy, Champagne recover

Vineyard in ChampagneFrance’s wine harvest will jump as much as 17% in 2025 from a year earlier, with higher volumes especially in Burgundy, Champagne and the Loire Valley due to more favourable growing conditions, according to the first forecast from the French agriculture ministry’s Agreste statistics division. This year’s vintage is expected to end up between 40 million and 42.5 million hectolitres, the statistics office said in a report, a r…