In Champagne, the yield for this year’s harvest, 2023, has now officially been set. It is negotiated every year. The Comité Champagne recently announced that the growers can pick 11,400 kg per hectare (73 hl/ha) at harvest time, which this year will be the first half of September. It is a reduction compared to last […]| BKWine Magazine
In Champagne, the permitted harvest for 2024 has now been determined. It is estimated that the harvest will begin around September 12. The determined harvest output has been set at 10,000 kilos per hectare (ca 64 hl/ha), slightly lower than last year’s 11,400 kg (ca 73 hl/ha). Sales figures have been pointing downwards 2023 and […]| BKWine Magazine
It has been a warm spring and summer in northern France in 2020. It is rumoured that the harvest in Champagne will start as early as around August 20. Therefore, it is urgent to determine this year’s maximum allowed yield. Every year, the houses and the grape growers together decide how many kilos of grapes […]| BKWine Magazine
In 2021, it will be 10,000 kilos per hectare (approx. 64 hl/ha) in Champagne. The harvest is expected to begin in the 2nd week of September.| BKWine Magazine
In Chronique (souvent) Bordelaise you can read about the evolution of harvest yields in Champagne. When the appellation was created in 1935 the maximum yield was defined as 7500 kg/hectare. (In Champagne they count in kg/ha instead of the measure hectolitres/ha used in most other districts. 7500 kg/ha corresponds to approx 50 hl/ha.) By 1998 […]| BKWine Magazine