minus 18% in France, minus 10% in Bordeaux and minus 35% in Cognac

Winegrowers and merchants waited a the thin crop of 2024. It will often be a disaster, burdened by “unfavorable climatic conditions”. According to one the new estimate of the Ministry of Agriculture established on 1 September, future French production would amount to just 39.3 million hectoliters, below the level 40 to 43 million expected in early August.

The harvest would decrease by 18% in one year and by 11% compared to the average of the last five years (2019-2023): the fault of the wet spring, which caused flow And millerandagethen to the attacks of mold this summer. Disease cryptogamic it was early and virulent, especially in the southwest.

All wine-growing areas are affected by the “clear decline” in production.

The volumes have been adjusted downward “due to a better appreciation of the flowering results in the later vineyards, especially in Charente and Charente-Maritime,” it saysAggressivethe official agricultural statistics service.

It's not bad news

In the country of cognac, production is estimated at 8.7 million hectoliters (mainly white distillate wine), down 35% compared to a the bumper crop of 2023. This is not bad news: the sector, weakened by a threatening geopolitical contextreduced its maximum commercial yield.

Bordeaux would produce 3.9 million hectoliters (including 3.5 under controlled designation of origin). The annual decrease would be 10%, after an already reduced harvest from 2023. L'Agreste cites “losses caused by coulure, millerandage, mold and hailstorms”. The organization also mentions “acreage reduction as part of the plan provision the uprooting of 8,000 hectares this year “. As in Cognac, the prospect of a small harvest, adapted to the crisis, does not displease the operators.

Estimates show -30% in the Loire Valley, -25% in Burgundy and Beaujolais, -16% in Champagne and -4% in Languedoc-Roussillon.