Italian sparkling wines are just short of surpassing 1 billion bottles consumed in a year. The year 2023 will stop at 936 million bottles (of which 7 out of 10 abroad), with a substantial hold in consumption, in volume, on 2022 (and +24% on 2019), with 333 million caps that will jump, in the world, in the festive period of the end of the year alone, of which more than 95 only in Italy, with Italians that for Christmas and New Year will also toast with 6 million bottles of foreign sparkling wines (mostly Champagne, ed.).

Thus the traditional analysis of the Osservatorio Unione Italiana Vini (Uiv) - Ismea. But if they hold consumption in quantity, to change is, as found since the beginning of the year, the choice of a product in some cases more affordable for the pockets of Italian and foreign consumers grappling with an expensive life that does not loosen its grip.