A brief history of Champagne yields – Or “victim of your own success”

Author: Per Karlsson
December 17, 2007

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Author: Per Karlsson
December 17, 2007

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In Chronique (souvent) Bordelaise you can read about the evolution of harvest yields in Champagne. When the appellation was created in 1935 the maximum yield was defined as 7500 kg/hectare. (In Champagne they count in kg/ha instead of the measure hectolitres/ha used in most other districts. 7500 kg/ha corresponds to approx 50 hl/ha.)

By 1998 they maximum yield had reached 8500 kg/ha (ca 57 hl/ha).

Today the allowed harvest volume is (after the latest increase earlier this year) 15,500 kg/ha (ca 103 hl/ha).

A curious contrast to most other regions that make efforts to restrict yields to increase quality.

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Per Karlsson

Swedish. Per is co-founder together with his wife Britt of BKWine. Rumour has it that his interest in wine started already when he was 11. Just like Britt he visits some 200 wineries each year on wine tours and for journalistic research. He writes about wine primarily online on BKWine Magazine and in the BKWine Brief. Per is also a professional photographer, specialising in wine and travel photography. See BKWine Photography for more on this. Since a few years back he has also branched out into video production on the same subject. He has contributed all images, and some text, to BKWine’s wine books.

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Per Karlsson