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Growing demand for quality wines in India and Russia has made Champagne a scarce commodity for other countries. The situation has reached to such a stage that, if production is not increased significantly over the next few months, Britain might have to do rationing for the mother of all wine. The restrictive French law, which limits the area that produces champagne is also hampering supply.

To tackle the situation France government has initiated a process to include 40 more villages in the exclusive list of  champagne quality grapes producing area through amendment of a 1927 law AOC (”appellation d’origine controlee”). At present the area is limited to only 35,000 hectares.

Industry figures indicate that import of champagne from India has been growing over triple digit figure and that of from China and Russia in the high forties. In total France exported 150 million of bottles last year and French themselves drank roughly around 188 million bottles.