Prosecco breaks new, unimaginable record, 700 million bottles

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There is no stopping Prosecco’s popularity. In 2021, 627.5 million bottles of Prosecco DOC were bottled (and, presumably, sold). Of this amount, 71.5 million bottles are rosé, a category created in 2020. Prosecco is, without a doubt, the most consumed bubbly wine in the world.

Not bad for a DOC that has been in existence for just over ten years. Prosecco DOCG is not included in these statistics. We don’t have a current number for the DOCGs but a guesstimate is around 100 million bottles.

This means that total prosecco sales (assuming bottlings correspond more or less to sales) would exceed 700 million bottles.

A prosecco is seldom totally dry (in the real sense of the word). The majority of the wines, 66.2%, are extra dry, which in bubble language means between 12 and 17 grams of sugar. 24.9% are brut, 0.3% extra brut and 0.2% brut nature. The sweeter categories, dry (17–32 grams of sugar) and demi-sec (32–50 grams), account for 8.1 and 0.3%, respectively.

The grapes for Prosecco DOC are grown on approximately 24,000 hectares (compared with Champagne’s 34,000). In other words, the harvest yield is big.

Read more: EfaNews (pdf).

Glera grapes harvested for prosecco in Veneto, Italy
Glera grapes harvested for prosecco in Veneto, Italy, copyright BKWine Photography

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  1. Please can you tell me how many bottles of Prosecco are sold in Spain per year.
    Thanks

    1. I don’t know, Michael. But with some digging around in different stats sources I think you could get a pretty good estimate. OIV and others. Maybe with some cross-correlation of imports and exports. Spanish customs statistics bureau (whatever that is called in that country) must have the numbers too.

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