Winegrowing and winemaking

Discover the latest winegrowing and winemaking trends at SITEVI

The entire winegrowing sector represented at SITEVI 2025

Tractors and traction equipment
Soil maintenance and cultivation
Sowing and planting equipment
Irrigation equipment
Crop protection, spraying and fertilising equipment
Maintenance, grafting and tying-up equipment for vines and fruit trees
Grape harvesting equipment
Plants and vine nurser ies
Engines, parts and components
Specific equipment landscaping and forestry
Agricultural supplies (fertilisers, plant protection, plastic, etc)
Sustainable development - Renewable energy
New technology for production and precision farming

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

The hands of a winegrower holding a bunch of grapes

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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