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Austria expects this year a vintage with good quality and average quantity. This is announced by Österreich Wein Marketing (ÖWM). There are differences between the wine growing regions.

"Numerous, partly heavy hailstorms, extreme heat and drought - all this did not harm the 2017 vintage overall. Viticulture has survived the extraordinarily intense heat summer well and this year's vintage can now score with fully ripe grapes," explained Johannes Schmuckenschlager, President of the Austrian Wine Industry. "Austria's winegrowers are looking forward to a quantitatively good harvest with very ripe and healthy grapes, which is on the long-term average

After the 2016 harvest was only two million hectolitres due to considerable late frost damage, Schmuckenschlager expects a wine harvest of about 2.3 million hectolitres this year. "If the weather continues to be as good until the harvest, the 2017 vintage will be a very good, fully ripe vintage with slightly higher alcohol content and lower acidity than last year," says the winegrowing president.

According to ÖWM, Styria can expect "a very good vintage in terms of both quantity and quality". In Burgenland, ÖWM expects a "normal harvest", in Lower Austria and Wien a "quantitatively good normal harvest". The first grapes are already being harvested at Neusiedlersee; the main harvest is scheduled to begin in Burgenland at the beginning of September, in Lower Austria and Styria in mid-September.

(CS / Press release; Picture: ÖWM / Klaus Egle)

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