Harvest Report 2006 - Loire, Alsace and Champagne

The just-drinks 2006 harvest round-up continues with a look at this year’s vintage in France’s most northerly wine regions of the Loire, Alsace and Champagne. Lyn Parry reports from the Loire, while Dean Best takes a look at this year’s Alsace harvest, and Giles Fallowfield assesses the 2006 crop in Champagne.

Harvest Report 2006 - Loire, Alsace and Champagne

30 November 2006

Champagne set for more consolidation

22 September 2006

Champagne has already seen significant merger and acquisition activity in the past year or so, but there could be further deals in the pipeline, writes Nuria Sadurni of Euromonitor International.

FRANCE: Champagne chief predicts record year

8 September 2006

Champagne is on course for record sales in 2006 after a buoyant first half of the year. Figures from trade body, the UMC, show sales rose by 8.8% in the first six months of the year to just over 116m bottles.