New Year Celebrations: Spumante Wine Sales up 3.4 Percent
Staff Writer - January 4, 2005
 In 2004, the sale of Spumante sparkling wine soared by 3.4 percent for an end-of-year total of about 80 million bottles. That's what Coldiretti, the Italian farmers' association, reported, based on data provided by the survey conducted by AcNielsen on the household consumption in the first ten months of 2004.
Compared to 2003, in almost three cases out of four (71 percent), bottles were bough in supermarkets, although the ones purchased in discount stores almost doubled (+89 percent).
Forty percent of the purchases for sparkling wines in Italy are usually made between mid-December and mid-January, and 98 percent of the bottles bought are Italian Spumante.
More than half is sold in northern regions (50.9 percent), 27.2 percent in central Italy and 21.9 percent in the south.
In 60 percent of the cases, sweet Spumante wines made with the Charmat method are preferred. The difference between the Charmat and the classic Champenois method is that in this case the fermentation process takes place in the autoclave rather than in the bottle.
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