Champagne 2020 – beyond the deal

Champagne’s 8,000 kg/ha yield limit for 2020, albeit a big drop, seems simple enough. But the fine print of the byzantine document detailing it needs some digestion to bare its key bones. (One producer described it so me as ‘a gas factory’.) The first point to make is that the 8,000 kg/ha is really 7,000 kg/ha. The strategy at work is to make the amount of champagne made in...