In 2024, Germans drank ten glasses less of sparkling wine, Prosecco, or Champagne per person than in 2014. This corresponds to about one bottle or a total decrease of almost 20 percent. According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, 255.3 million liters of sparkling wine were sold in Germany in the previous year. This means that each person aged 16 and over consumed about 4.8 bottles or 36 glasses of 0.1 liters each. In 2014, these figures were 6.1 bottles or 46 glasses.

Only alcoholic sparkling wines were recorded in the statistics, as sparkling wine tax is levied on these. The tax was introduced in 1902 in the German Empire to finance the construction of the war fleet and the North-East Canal. It is due for sparkling wines that have at least 1.2% alcohol by volume and three bar overpressure. It generated around 352 million euros in 2024, corresponding to 0.04 percent of total tax revenues in Germany.

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