Champagne yield set for 2013 harvest
Champagne yield set for 2013 harvest
Aug 5, 2013 6(Decanter) - The yield for the 2013 Champagne harvest has been set at 10,000 kilograms per hectare, with an additional 500kg/ha allowed to be released from producers' reserve stocks next February, the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC) has announced.
Vineyard owners can also put up to 3,100kg/ha more into their own reserve stocks (Resérve Individuelle), providing that reserve doesn’t exceed 10,000kg/ha, which is unlikely in most cases given the small 2012 harvest.
On average, across the entire appellation, producers hold 6,400kg/ha in their reserves.
Réserve Individuelle is still wine, held in tank, that hasn’t been though secondary fermentation. This stock is held by individual producers as security to be used when vineyards are affected by natural disasters limiting overall production.
Setting a yield of 10,500kg/ha, the equivalent to 305 million bottles of Champagne, signifies the shipment levels the CIVC believes will be reached by the end of 2013. This is roughly 3% down on the 315 million bottles shipped in 2012.
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