Champagne shipments fall again for third successive year, down 2% in 2025

Total Champagne shipments in 2025 have fallen for the third year in a row, a further 2% on the previous year, to 266 million bottles. This is some 5m bottles, or 2% down, on the 271m bottles shipped in 2024, which was itself a drop of 9.4% on the total (299m) taken by all markets in 2023.

Champagne has now reached the lowest level of the past 20 years, except for the anomalous 2020, when the first wave of Covid-related lockdowns saw shipments drop to 254m bottles from almost 300m the year before.

There has been a number of factors, including the negative impact of geo-political tensions around the world and consumption trends towards moderation. Causing further damage to sales of the fine French fizz have been economic factors, such as falling disposable incomes, exacerbated by the rising cost ­­of Champagne, which has made it more expensive

Despite the declines, the association’s co-president David Chatillon reiterated that Champagne is a “solid, sustainable organisational model that has proved its value, even in the face of adversity, which gives it confidence in the future.”

As the table below (displaying total volume of shipments annually from 2025-1999) shows, the all-time high of 333.8m bottles shipped was achieved in 2007.

The majority of the decrease in 2025 volume shipments was due to France, which is Champagne’s largest single market and suffered a drop of almost 4m bottles from 118.2m in 2024 to 114m over the last year. Exports of Champagne fell marginally, shedding 1.2m bottles in 2025, dropping from 153.2m in 2024 to 152m total last year.

‘The French market is a showcase for our appellation, and we must strengthen it. We have all the assets we need – excellent wines, unique expertise and collective strength – to consolidate this position and promote Champagne,’ explains Maxime Toubart, President of the Syndicat Général des Vignerons and Co-President of the Comité Champagne.

The fact that the reduction in shipments is relatively small illustrates Champagne’s enduring global appeal and the region’s resilience.