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Champagne

Champagne is a French PDO, protected since 1973. The registered specification allows 7 grape varieties, grown within a delimited zone of 3,633 km².

Delimited area
3,633 km²
Permitted varieties
7
Average season GDD
1134

The delimited zone

ParisBaselRouenStrasbourgMetzNancy200 km
The official boundary, from the EU PDO geospatial inventory (Sci Data 9, 394), shown over its surroundings. Backdrop cartography: Natural Earth (public domain).

How it sits with its neighbours

Contains 1 smaller appellation, largest first:

What may go in the bottle

The registered specification authorises 7 grape varieties for these product categories: quality sparkling wine.

The rules of the appellation

Product categoriesQuality Sparkling Wine
Maximum harvest15500 kg/ha
IrrigationProhibited
Delimited municipalities312 communes
EU file numberPDO-FR-A1359

Every vintage since 2000, measured

We calculate each growing season (April–October) from the Open-Meteo historical archive, taken at the centre of the appellation. Degree days use the Winkler scale, base 10 °C. It is the same data the textbooks use, simply done for every region and every year.

05001000150020002000: 955 GDD20002001: 992 GDD2002: 941 GDD2003: 1,288 GDD2004: 1,010 GDD2005: 1,164 GDD20052006: 1,261 GDD2007: 1,006 GDD2008: 929 GDD20082009: 1,059 GDD2010: 968 GDD20102011: 1,124 GDD2012: 1,000 GDD2013: 1,055 GDD2014: 1,065 GDD2015: 1,090 GDD20152016: 1,104 GDD2017: 1,199 GDD2018: 1,503 GDD20182019: 1,251 GDD2020: 1,350 GDD20202021: 1,051 GDD2022: 1,397 GDD2023: 1,332 GDD2024: 1,155 GDD2025: 1,238 GDD2025
Growing degree days by vintage. Dashed line: 26-year average (1134).
02004006008002000: 565 mm20002001: 550 mm2002: 442 mm2003: 368 mm2004: 376 mm2005: 377 mm20052006: 460 mm2007: 475 mm2008: 507 mm2009: 421 mm2010: 421 mm20102011: 336 mm2012: 554 mm2013: 459 mm2014: 474 mm2015: 375 mm20152016: 498 mm2017: 427 mm2018: 332 mm20182019: 472 mm2020: 358 mm20202021: 483 mm2022: 415 mm2023: 546 mm2024: 630 mm20242025: 460 mm2025
Growing-season rainfall by vintage, mm. Dashed line: average (453 mm).
VintageGDDRain mm Harvest rain*Frost days35 °C+ days
2000955565 16300
2001992550 11840
2002941442 10710
20031288368 7395
20041010376 5810
20051164377 5100
20061261460 10440
20071006475 7910
2008929507 7140
20091059421 5210
2010968421 7340
20111124336 4600
20121000554 13231
20131055459 10550
20141065474 10700
20151090375 9020
20161104498 7420
20171199427 6510
20181503332 6801
20191251472 16722
20201350358 17923
20211051483 9280
20221397415 9541
20231332546 15320
20241155630 17300
20251238460 10801

*rain in the final 45 days of the season.

Sources. Regulatory data: eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register (file PDO-FR-A1359) and the EU wine PDO inventory, Sci Data 9, 394 (2022), CC BY 4.0. Weather: Open-Meteo historical archive (CC BY 4.0). Every number on this page is calculated from the records cited above, and every rule is taken straight from them. Nothing here is machine-written filler.