In 2023, the EU produced 1 496billion litres of sparkling wine of fresh grapes. Compared with 2022, this represented an 8% decrease from around 1 624 billion.
The top producing countries in 2023 were Italy, France and Germany, with 638, 312 (224 million litres of champagne and 88 million litres of sparkling wine) and 263 million litres, respectively. These were followed by Spain (206 million litres) and Portugal (25 million litres).
Source datasets: ds-056120 and ds-045409
In the same year the EU exported 600 million litres of sparkling wine to non-EU countries, marking a decrease of 8% compared with the 649 million litres exported in 2022. Despite the decline in 2023, export levels remained higher than those seen in previous years: 498 million litres in 2018, 528 million in 2019 and 495 million in 2020.
In 2023, the largest categories of sparkling wine exported were prosecco (44%, 266 million litres), sparkling wine from fresh grapes (17%, 100 million), champagne (15%, 91 million), cava (10%, 60 million) and other sparkling wine of fresh grapes with a protected designation of origin (PDO) (6%, 33 million).
Meanwhile, EU countries imported 5 million litres of sparkling wine from non-EU countries, which corresponded to less than 1% of the amount exported.
Source: Eurostat, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20241230-1
