Vineyards

• France’s leading producer of white wines
• France’s leading AOC region for fine sparkling wines
• France’s 3rd largest region in terms of production, with
  4,000,000 hectolitres, including 3,000,000 hl of quality wines PSR
• France’s 4th largest vineyard in terms of surface area 
  70,000 hectares, including 52,000 ha of quality wines PSR, spread over 13 departments
• 63 Appellations d’Origine Contrôlée
  400 million bottles

Companies

• 7,000 wine growers
• 100 wine merchants (15 companies account for 70% of overall turnover)
• 24 winegrowers’ cooperatives

People

• 33,000 direct jobs

Sales

• Turnover of 1.2 billion euros, including 220 million euros from exports
• 13 bottles sold every second
  60% wine produced is bought by wine merchants
  1/3 of all production is marketed by winegrowers’ cooperatives
• 1st in catering industrys
• 2nd in home consumption
• 3rd in retail distribution: 100 million bottles sold, i.e. 1 in every 4 bottles of wine sold is a Val de Loire wine
• Exports: 70 million bottles are exported, i.e. 1/5 of total production, 40% of which are for the United Kingdom and 20% for Belgium

Consumption

• In the home: 4 in every 10 households consume Val de Loire wines