Après un millésime 2021 désastreux, la production viticole française repart à la hausse: elle devrait atteindre 44.6 million d’hectoliters in 2022, en hausse de 18%, sans être toutefois épargnée par la sécheresse exceptionnelle de l’été, estimated at Department of agriculture.
The first pruning shears were delivered early in the Hérault at the beginning of August due to high temperatures that accelerated the ripening of the grapes and the harvest is coming to an end in almost all wine-growing areas, said Agreste, the statistical service. From the ministry As of October 1, it estimates that the 2022 harvest should exceed the average of the last five years by 4% and exceed it more widely in Champagne, Burgundy or Corsica, according to figures published this Friday.
This perspective allows the wine industry, faced with the challenge of climate change, to look at the future with a little more calm after a 2021 harvest greatly reduced by spring frosts and falling to 37.8 million hectoliters. This estimate for 2022 is at the top of the range given by Agreste at the beginning of August, which bet on a production between 42.6 and 45.6 million hectoliters.
“Exceptional” vintage in Champagne
The historic summer drought did not spare any region, but some vineyards held up better than others. In Champagne, the harvest promises to be “exceptional”, greeted its winegrowers union (SVG) on Thursday, which set its yield at the beginning of the campaign at 12,000 kilos per hectare, the highest level in fifteen years.
In Burgundy, the harvest will also be “well above the five-year average.” In Languedoc-Roussillon, irrigated vines are the ones that have resisted the best, Agreste points out. Enough to limit the damage from the drought and not undermine too much the potential of a promising vintage. On the other hand, “the deficit of spring rains and the strong summer heat have reduced the potential in several basins, particularly in the South-West”, where the harvest will be even lower than the “particularly weak” one of 2021. points out the Agreste.
Dans le Bordelais, “les baies sont restées petites pour les rouges avec peu de jus au pressage. Le gel d’avril puis la grêle en juin ont touché le vignoble (10,000 hectares)” and the production will be in portrait compared to la moyenne sur five years. The same observation for Alsace, which suffered losses of 40% in certain plots due to frost after Agreste, then suffered a prolonged drought, impossible to reach with the late summer rains.
Source: BFM TV
