Market
Champagne closes 2025 at 266 million bottles, slightly down on 2024
The Comité Champagne's 2025 shipment review reports 266 million bottles sold globally — around 114 million in France, roughly 152 million on export markets.
What happened
The Comité Champagne published its 2025 shipment review in January 2026. Global shipments came in at 266 million bottles, a slight decline on 2024. The French domestic market accounted for roughly 114 million bottles; exports for around 152 million.
The institution attributed the year’s softness to a combination of geopolitical pressure, shifting consumption patterns, stock adjustments held by distributors, and lingering inflation.
Why it matters
266 million bottles is materially below the 326-million peak the sector recorded in 2022, and the review sets the tone for producers building budgets and allocations for 2026. A roughly flat-to-negative year at the top of the wine pyramid tends to compress grower-allocation decisions, affect promotional spend, and reshape pricing conversations in key export markets.
Context
Shipment figures are reported by the Comité Champagne, the joint trade association that has represented growers, cooperatives and houses since 1941. It speaks for some 16,200 growers, 130 cooperatives and 370 houses.
Maxime Toubart, president of the Syndicat général des vignerons, and David Chatillon, president of the Union des Maisons de Champagne — the institution’s two co-presidents — both underscored the strategic importance of the French domestic market in their commentary accompanying the release.