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Dry wines are still in vogue. This is confirmed by the current figures from the quality wine test published by the German Wine Institute (DWI). According to these figures, around 12 million more quality and Prädikat wines were bottled in the dry taste category in 2017 than in 2016. As a result, their share of the total quantity of quality-tested wine grew by one percentage point to 47 percent compared to the previous year and by as much as seven percentage points compared to 2010. The share of semi-dry wines remained constant at 21 percent.
According to the figures, white wines accounted for 62 percent of German quality and Prädikat wine production last year. Their share rose by two percentage points in 2017, while red wines fell by two percentage points to 27 percent and rosé wines remained unchanged at eleven percent.
The total quantity of quality-tested wine of 7.6 million hectolitres is thus 0.8 percent higher than in 2016 and is divided into 131,000 lots. According to the DWI, an average of around 84 percent of annual German wine production has been quality-tested in recent years. The remaining portion is marketed as country wine or used for sparkling wine production.
(uka / Photo: German Wine Institute)