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According to Moselwein e.V., the 2017 vintage in the Mosel wine region has broken two records: On the one hand, "it was the earliest harvest in living memory", and on the other hand, the harvest volume was "lower than ever before in the past five decades". In terms of quality, however, the vintage offers a spectrum ranging from simple entry-level wine to Trockenbeerenauslese, the association reported at its autumn press conference at Gut Cantzheim in Kanzem on the Saar.

As in previous years, extreme weather phenomena destroyed the hopes of the winegrowers for a "normal" vintage, explained chairman Rolf Haxel, and the 2017 vintage was mainly affected by the extreme late frost in April. According to Haxel, the harvest volume of around 600,000 hectolitres was 150,000 hectolitres lower than in 2016, which means that the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer harvests were 200,000 hectolitres lower than the ten-year average of 800,000 hectolitres (2007 to 2016).

While Elbling, Müller-Thurgau and other early-ripening white varieties generally guarantee a good yield in terms of quantity, the winegrowers in 2017 would have had to be content with considerably fewer grapes in their harvest carts. The Elbling thus achieved an average yield of 8,500 litres per hectare, compared to 11,000 litres last year. Elbling producers reported to Moselwein e.V. that yields of only 4,000 litres were achieved in locations that were particularly badly damaged by frost. For Müller-Thurgau, with an average of 90 hectolitres per hectare in 2016, the average yield is estimated at 70 hectolitres.

The same average yield is expected for Riesling. However, here too, yields fluctuate, sometimes significantly, depending on location, region and farm. Above all, quality-oriented farms that reduce yields as early as the pruning stage were hit particularly hard in 2017. Often these wineries would have harvested only 4,000 to 5000 litres per hectare.

(uka / Photo: Moselwein e.V. - Ralf Kaiser)

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