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Of the 2019 vintage, 8.33 million hectolitres of wine must were produced in Germany. According to the German Wine Institute (DWI), based on a survey by the Federal Statistical Office, the final harvest is thus five percent below the ten-year average of 8.8 million hectolitres and 20 percent below the exceptionally large harvest of the 2018 vintage. The below-average yields are attributable to the partly massive sunburn damage to the berries due to the extreme temperatures as well as the long dry spell in summer.
63 percent of the harvest came from white wine varieties and 37 percent from red grapes. The DWI writes that a differentiation of the harvest results according to growing regions has not yet been possible in Rhineland-Palatinate due to the current restrictions caused by the corona pandemic. In the largest wine-growing federal state, the harvest of around 5.6 million hectoliters was four percent lower than the ten-year average.
In 2019, Franconian wine producers suffered exceptionally high harvest losses of 22 percent. With a minus of 14 percent in both Württemberg and Saale-Unstrut, yields were also significantly below average. By contrast, in Baden, Germany's third largest wine-growing region, the harvest of 1.2 million hectolitres was up by one percent. In Saxony, it was even 22 percent above the ten-year average at 26,000 hectolitres.
(uka / Photo: German Wine Institute)