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German wine-growers are altogether satisfied with the qualities and and quantities of grapes harvested in 2014. Based on the final statistics just released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the German Wine Institute/Mainz reports that the 9.2 million hectoliters harvested is about nine percent more than the year before and in line with the ten-year average. After the relatively small volume of 2013, the new vintage helped replenish low cellar stocks. 

Wine must yields in the Mosel, Hessische Bergstrasse, and Sachsen regions were up more than 30 percent compared with 2013, and more than 20 percent in Baden, the Rheingau, and the Ahr. Although Rheinhessen and the Pfalz posted increases of only one to two percent, Germany’s two largest regions accounted for over half of the entire crop in 2014. White wine grapes made up the lion’s share of the harvest, or 63 percent and red wine grapes, some 37 percent – equivalent to 5.8 million hl and 3.4 million hl, respectively.

 

In terms of volume and value, vintage 2014 is in tune with market conditions. Due to the mild winter of 2013/2014, Eiswein is an absolute rarity.

 

Grape must yields 2014

 

Wine-growing region	Harvest volume 2014 (hl)	Compared with 2013 (%)	Compared with 10-year average (%)
Ahr	43 778	+ 26	+ 10
Baden	1 322 447	+ 23	+ 6
Franken	469 043	+ 8	+ 5
Hess. Bergstrasse	30 156	+ 37	- 1
Mittelrhein	28 596	+ 19	- 4
Mosel	862 163	+ 38	+ 4
Nahe	338 495	+ 4	+ 1
Pfalz	2 218 161	+ 1	- 1
Rheingau	224 000	+ 20	- 2
Rheinhessen	2 574 784	+ 2	+/- 0
Saale-Unstrut	41 812	- 3	+ 4
Sachsen	20 916	+ 35	+ 9
Württemberg	1 036 883	+ 13	- 6
Others	451	+ 33	---
Germany (total)	9 211 686	+ 9	+ 0.5