Press release No. 315 of 2 July 2021
- Trend towards old vines that are better protected against dry periods: area up 11.5% on 2015
- Spread of internationally important vine varieties increases
WIESBADEN – In 2020, wine was grown on 103,180 hectares in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the area under vines increased by 994 hectares, or 1.0%, compared with 2009. The data come from the basic survey of areas under vines, which was last conducted in 2009 and 2015. The year of 2020 is special in that 19 hectares of area under vines were recorded for the first time in Niedersachsen. This means that now wine is grown in all Länder (except the city states). The largest area under vines is recorded for Rheinland-Pfalz (64,524 hectares), the smallest in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (6 hectares).
