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Following the small harvest of around 7.5 million hectolitres in the previous year, the latest yield estimates for the 2018 vintage exceed expectations and suggest a nationwide wine must harvest of around 10.7 million hectolitres. This was announced by the German Wine Institute (DWI).

According to the DWI, this estimate would correspond to a 23 percent increase over the ten-year average of 8.8 million hectolitres and the largest harvest since 1999. However, the estimated yield increases vary greatly among the 13 German wine-growing regions; they range from five percent in Saale-Unstrut to 19 and 17 percent in the two largest German wine-growing regions of Rhine-Hesse and Palatinate and up to 64 percent on the Middle Rhine.

After one of the warmest summers and the earliest start to the grape harvest since records began, German wine producers have, according to the DWI, brought in large quantities of top-quality grapes nationwide. In retrospect, the drought in the summer months has done more good than harm to the vines and ripening. Thanks to the hot, dry weather, the grapes presented themselves as healthy as a horse, very aromatic and highly ripe until October. At the time of harvesting, care was taken to ensure that the grapes did not enter the cellars with too high must weights in order to prevent the wines from becoming overly strong.

(CS / Press release; Picture: DWI)

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