Italian sparkling wines have closed 2022 once again at almost 1 billion bottles (978 million), revealed the UIV-Vinitaly Observatory, which processed bottling data collected from the certification bodies.

The figure marks a slight increase (+4%) on the superabundant 2021 (+25%), while table and varietals (+10%) did better than sparkling DOC-PGI (+3%, 807 million bottles). By territory, 85% of Italian PDO-PGI sparkling wine came from the Venetian region (683 million bottles), followed by Piedmont (9% and 72 million), Lombardy (3% and 24 million bottles), Trentino (2% and 16 million ) and Emilia-Romagna (1% and 7.4 million).