Champagne sales sink in a world with little to celebrate

PARIS (Reuters) - Global champagne sales are forecast to slump by a third, or 100 million bottles, this year as the coronavirus crisis shuts bars and restaurants worldwide and hammers economies.The collapse is akin to a wartime depression, the champagne producers' group CIVC told Reuters on Thursday. Lost sales could total over 1.7 billion euros in 2020, and the downturn could last for many years, it said."When someone looses a job or someone dies in his family, they don't want to celebrate, so..