{"id":519390,"date":"2025-10-22T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:32:28","slug":"german-harvest-set-to-be-smallest-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519390\/","title":{"rendered":"German harvest set to be smallest since 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol class=\"breadcrumb\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.co.uk\/news\/categoryfront.php\/id\/11\/News.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn796.pressflex.net\/images\/\/34899.photo.2.jpg?m=1761127892\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Hamish Graham<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0 22 October, 2025<\/p>\n<p>According to trade body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winesofgermany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The German Wine Institute<\/a> (DWI) this year\u2019s harvest in Germany is predicted to total at 7.3m hls. This figure would make it the smallest grape harvest in the country since 2010 (7.1m hls).<\/p>\n<p>This drop represents a -7% fall compared to 2024\u2019s harvest, while also being down -16% when compared to the average harvest volume of the past 10 years (8.7ml hls).<\/p>\n<p>The decline has been driven by a much-reduced harvest in Germany\u2019s four largest wine-producing regions \u2013 Rheinhessen, Pfalz, Baden and W\u00fcrttemberg.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the volume decline, all 13 German wine growing regions are reporting strong quality due to unusually high grape ripeness. Although grapes were smaller, producers detail wines will be more aromatic compared to last year\u2019s, with concentrated, fruitier wines anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at individual regions, Rheinhessen saw a -23% or 600,000hl drop in production compared to the 10-year average. The touted reasons driving this fall included smaller grape berries, below-average must yields, as well as intensive selections following heavy mid-September rainfall in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Pfalz saw volumes reduce by 400,000hls (-18% compared to the 10 year mean) with Baden and W\u00fcrttemberg seeing declines of -15% and -22% by the same metric, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the two eastern German wine producing regions \u2013 Sachsen and Saale-Unstrut, and the Ahr \u2013 saw impressive three-digit percentage increases in volume compared to last year\u2019s harvest.<\/p>\n<p>    Other articles of interest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Home News By Hamish Graham Published:\u00a0 22 October, 2025 According to trade body The German Wine Institute (DWI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[169095,2000,299,168540,1824,16976,169097,169096],"class_list":{"0":"post-519390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-dwi","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-german-wine-institute","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-harvest","14":"tag-pfalz","15":"tag-rheinhessen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115417367105952520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}