Why Crémant is on the rise

The flagships of French sparkling wine production - the Crémants - have reached ever higher quality standards in recent years and are gaining an ever-growing fan base worldwide. "From the wineries' perspective, 2022 will be one of the best vintages since 2018 in terms of both quality and quantity," confirms Fabien Branchu, President of the Fédération Nationale des Producteurs et Élaborateurs de Crémant, the French Crémant producers' association. "Like almost all of Europe, we recorded very high harvest losses in 2021. In many places, almost the entire harvest was lost due to frost, as in the Jura, or other capricious weather conditions. Fortunately, we can now somewhat compensate for this with the very good 2022 vintage," he says happily.