So you love French wines and are keen to buy them as cheaply as possible?
Sorry, the news is all bad with production figures for the 2024 vintage tumbling by 18% year-on-year and 11% against a five-year average, potentially creating a supply shortage.
Figures from the French government’s agricultural statistics department paint a bleak picture for wine lovers, news website drinks business reports.
Wine production is estimated to be 39.3 million hectolitres in 2024, Agreste, the statistics and forecasting department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, says.
This would make it one of the lowest years for production since the World War II, when the industry was recovering, and one of the smallest harvests in a century. Not since 1957 has production been this low.
The decline is due to particularly unfavourable weather conditions that have reduced production potential in almost all wine-growing areas.
The most significant declines concern the vineyards of Jura, Charente, the Loire Valley and Beaujolais/Burgundy, Agreste reported.
Episodes of frost and hail have also been reported.
The data agency reported decline is expected in almost all regions, including Champagne and Burgundy.
In Alsace, wine production would drop by 30% compared to last year, while Bordeaux is expected to fall by 10%, after an already reduced harvest in 2023.
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