Recent years have seen a record-breaking increase in organic wine acreage in France. Now you are up to 20% of the total vineyard area, which means 159,868 hectares that are organically certified or under conversion. Of the 159,868 hectares, 69,570 hectares are under conversion, and they are fairly evenly distributed between years 1, 2 and 3.
France has steadily increased its organic area since 2012. At first, it was slow and then increasingly faster.
- 2012: 62,514 ha
- 2013: 62,528 ha
- 2014: 63,759 ha
- 2015: 68,537 ha
- 2016: 70,624 ha
- 2017: 78,471 ha
- 2018: 91,289 ha
- 2019, 112,591 ha
- 2020: 137,276 ha
- 2021: 159,868 ha
If we take agriculture as a whole, the organic area is just over 10%.
Read more: AgenceBio.
Read: more on organic wines in BKWine’s book Organic, Biodynamic and Natural winemaking.
