Home gross sales dipped by 1.7% year-on-year to 138.4 million bottles, however exports surged by 4.3% to 187.5 million bottles.
That pushed the general class into modest quantity development, with gross sales up from 321.8 million bottles in 2021 to 325.9 million final yr.
Worth gross sales additionally smashed by way of the €6bn (£5.26bn) barrier for the primary time, suggesting that the business has now emerged comparatively unscathed from the pandemic.
Maxime Toubart, co-president of the Comité Champagne, hailed the figures as ‘a reward for the efforts of the Champagne producers to take care of the place of Champagne as an impressive wine’ throughout a tricky few years.
International gross sales reached 297.5 million bottles in 2019, however dropped to 245 million in 2020, as there was little trigger for celebration all over the world.
They rebounded in 2021 after which hit new heights final yr, pushed by the rise in exports to international locations such because the US and the UK.
Exports accounted for 45% of Champagne gross sales a decade in the past, however they now characterize 57% of gross sales.
David Chatillon, president of the Union des Maisons de Champagne and co-president of the Comité Champagne, stated: ‘Champagne, because the supreme wine of celebrations, has been the pure selection of the world’s shoppers as they rejoiced on the finish of lockdowns and rediscovered a style for events, for going out and for travelling.’
The Comité Champagne added that international geopolitical and financial circumstances could encourage a ‘prudent outlook’ for 2023, however declared the Champagne growers and producers stay assured within the fundamental well being of their companies.
That sentiment is bolstered by the high quality and amount of the 2022 harvest, which resulted in an accessible yield of 12,000 kilograms per hectare.
That’s the highest degree in 15 years, ensuing from the shortage of spring frosts and hailstorms through the classic.
