After New Year's Eve, it's time for first balance sheets. First of all for the Italian bubbles. The first data claim that the historic record for made in Italy toasts was reached in the world in 2022. In fact, it seems that, with the stroke of midnight on 31 December, the number of bottles of Italian spumante uncorked abroad rose to over 700 million. These figures derive from an initial estimate by Coldiretti, according to which Italy should have reached for the first time a value of exports abroad of more than 2 billion (+23%).

According to Coldiretti, as in Italy sparkling wine ranks as the most present product in year-end dinners, abroad so many Italian bubbles have never been requested: for what concerns the number of bottles, Italy clearly dominates in global toasts in front of french champagne, which however still manages to fetch higher prices.