Last year we had to deal with the devastating (and dramatic) news of both an avocado AND a gin shortage, and now we have an equally worrying concern.
This time it is champagne at risk, and as per usual, we have the weather gods to blame. According to the wine experts at Decanter, bad weather, rot and mildew in the Champagne region of France have resulted in one of the lowest yielding Champagne seasons since the 1980s.
In particular, it’s the late Spring frost that hits the Côte des Bar region we have to blame - this is where a quarter of the Champagne vineyards are. Jean Pierre Fleury, winemaker at Champagne Fleury in Courteron told Decanter that this frost caused him to lose 70% of his potential harvest.
But, fear not, you don’t need to start stockpiling bottles of bubbly because Champagne producers are prepared for this kind of disaster. They have large champagne reserves which mean that we, as the customer, shouldn’t see a noticeable difference. Phew. However if Champagne producers do run into similar problems next year and they’re forced to dip into the reserves again we could be in trouble.
In the meantime at least we've always got our faithful Prosecco to fall back on.
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