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The entire winegrowing sector represented at SITEVI 2025

The entire winemaking sector represented at SITEVI 2025

  • Winery construction, indoor equipment
  • Grape harvest reception and handling
  • Wine making, pressing and must and wine processing equipment
  • Wine bottling, distribution and dispatching
  • Handling and transport equipment
  • Sustainable development - Renewable energy
  • Services, data processing, management
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Production and markets: key figures at a glance

Vine and wine sector: structure & output  

  • 1 in 5 farms has a winegrowing/making activity. There are 85,000 of them in France in total (source CNIV)
  • France accounts for 11.2% of the world’s winegrowing vineyards* with 789,000 hectares
  • In 2023, France produced 4.8 billion litres of wine
  • 57% of volumes produced are vinified in individual estate wineries. The remaining 43% are vinified by 1,500 winemaking traders and cooperatives (Source CNIV)

International reach & market positioning  

  • In 2023, France produced 4.8 billion litres of wine
  • Provence is the leading producer of rosé wine in France, with 157 million bottles of AOC wine produced in 2022, representing 38% of domestic production and 4.2% of all rosé wine produced worldwide.
  • France is the world’s second largest producer of wine by volume, behind Italy, and the leading exporter
  • Whereas vineyards account for 3% of French agricultural area, wine accounts for 15% of French agricultural output by volume (Source CNIV)

A strategic regional economic driver

  • Winegrowing provides nearly 500,000 direct and indirect jobs in France *
  • The winegrowing and winemaking sector is established in 66 French departments*
  • 93% of French wine production bears a quality hallmark: PDO (60%) and PGI (33%), making up 437 ODG (advocacy bodies) and more than 54,000 estates, covering around 700,000 hectares of vineyards.
  • Around 50 main grape varieties are grown in France
*SITEVI press kit, September 2023
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Consumption trends in figures  

  • In 2022, global wine consumption remained stable at 33 billion bottles.
  • 10 countries together drink 70% of all the wine made in the world. France (3.5 billion 75cl-eq bottles) lies second behind the United States, and ahead of Italy (2.6 billion bottles)
  • 299 million bottles of champagne sold in 2023
  • In 2023, 16 million French consumers said they drank red wine regularly (statista.com)
  • 24.7 million hectolitres of wine were drunk in France in 2023

Trends and key issues in organic wine  

  • 22% of vineyards are organically farmed (2023)
  • France has 10,739 producers of organic wine (2023)
  • 23,524 estates certified or in the process of qualifying for the ‘high environmental value’ label* (01/01/2024)


*High environmental value certification (HVE in French), instigated by the Grenelle de l’Environnement industry negotiations in France in 2007, indicates the attainment of a level of environmental excellence in four areas: biodiversity (with hedges, grassed strips and copses), input, fertilising and irrigation strategies. It follows specifications overseen by government-approved certifying bodies.

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