Harvest 2018 Figures - 10.27 million hectolitres of wine produced

Harvest 2018 Figures – 10.27 million hectolitres of wine produced

The national wine production of the vintage 2018 amounts to 10.27 million hectolitres (hl) in Germany. These figures range slightly below the 10.67 hl estimate that had been published in October 2018. The up-to-date figures have been circulated by the German Wine Institute (DWI) on the basis of the final harvest results of the Federal Statistical Office.

The year 2018 is the second largest vintage of the century after 2007. The reason for the differences between forecasts and results may be that many winemakers have decided to distil wine above the quality wine quotas.The largest regional harvest with 2.86 million hl was brought in in Rheinhessen, the Palatinate follows with 2.48 million hl. Even the regions of Baden and Württemberg cracked with 1.5 and 1.15 million hl the million mark. Nearly 900,000 hl were harvested in the Mosel region, 482,000 in Franconia, 387,000 in the Nahe region and 279,000 in the Rheingau. The amount of land- and raw wine is 454,000 hl.

Germany’s wine must 2018 by region

Region	Total [hl]	Qualitätswein [hl]	Prädikatswein [hl]	Dt. Wein / Landwein [hl]
Rheinhessen	2.860.342	1.816.054	794.349	249.940
Pfalz	1.965.886	1.404.629	466.093	95.165
Baden	1.503.559	526.573	969.563	7.424
Württemberg	1.149.346	740.667	405.700	2.979
Mosel	1.516.498	1.024.216	412.033	80.250
Franken	482.402	124.690	355.656	2.056
Nahe	283.381	128.617	151.009	3.564
Rheingau	2.79.222	106.783	171.201	1.238
Saale-Unstrut	46.828	30.145	16.653	30
Ahr	58.343	50.634	3.707	4.002
Hess. Bergstraße	42.339	25.598	16.456	284
Sachsen	25.986	8.079	17.047	861
Mittelrhein	36.300	22.395	12.444	1.461
Deutschland	10.268.505	6.017.360	3.797.306	453.839

(rounding mistakes are possible. source: Federal Statistical Office of Germany)

Germany’s wine must in hectolitres

(Source: Federal Statistical Office / German Wine Institute)