Tuesday, 12 August, 2025
Decanter, Rudy Ruitenberg
France’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 recovery from the previous season, when disastrous weather resulted in the smallest harvest in more than 60 years at 36.3 million hectolitres. Volumes are seen close to the five-year average.
France is expected to remain the world’s second-largest wine producer behind Italy in 2025, based on current forecasts. The country has faced some unusually severe production declines in the past decade due to adverse weather events linked to climate change, from spring frosts, hail, and drought to extreme rainfall.
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