Article: France still reigns supreme when it comes to sparkling wine, EU export statistics show


AP Worldstream
12-22-2005
Dateline: BRUSSELS, Belgium
When it comes to celebrating the new year with sparkling wine, there is nothing like champagne.

Nearly 1 billion euros of sparkling wine were exported from the EU to the rest of the world last year and France accounted for nearly 75 percent of that, or euro741 million (US$880 million), the EU's statistics office announced Thursday. Italy's spumante and prosecco came ...

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