Yield significantly higher than 2022
Winegrowers expect a better vintage
09/04/2023, 10:45 am
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According to estimates by the Federal Statistical Office, the German wine harvest will increase this year. The German winegrowers owe this to more favorable weather conditions: enough rain and hardly any damage from storms and frost.
Thanks to better weather conditions, the German wine harvest promises to be significantly more productive this year than in 2022. Like that Federal Statistical Office announced on the basis of initial estimates that the harvest is expected to be around 9.9 million hectoliters of wine must.
Compared to the 2022 vintage with a good 9.1 million hectoliters, this would mean an increase of 9.1 percent. One reason for this is that the water supply in the 2023 growing season was sufficient in most wine-growing regions. There was no major damage from hail, storm and frost. The estimated harvest volume is almost 1.2 million hectoliters or 13.3 percent above the average for the years 2017 to 2022. According to the Federal Statistical Office, the harvest volume of Riesling, the most popular German grape variety, is expected to increase by 314,600 hectoliters this year compared to 2022 .2 million hectoliters: This corresponds to an increase of 16.8 percent.
The second and third most important white grape varieties in terms of volume, Müller-Thurgau (1.2 million hectoliters, up 1.8 percent) and Pinot Gris (725,200 hectoliters, up 4.6 percent) are also growing. The harvest volume of the red grape variety Blauer Spätburgunder also increased significantly by 5.9 percent to 1 million hectoliters, while Dornfelder remained roughly at the previous year’s level (774,200 hectoliters; plus 0.2 percent).