2015 Vintage
Rarely has a vintage year received at the
conclusion so much praise as the 2015er.
The German Wine
Institute (DWI)is reporting top quality from all growing
regions.
Thanks to perfectly healthy, fully mature and very aromatic
grapes, wine lovers can expect very fruity,
happy, harmonious whites and intense, full-bodied red wines.
The vintage year also has an extraordinary number of
high-quality noble sweet specialties,
from Auslese up to Trockenbeerenauslese. The nationwide
expected harvest volumes are at
around nine million hectoliters, the level of the ten-year
average and only two percent below last year's numbers.
Due to the very dry summer, the harvest rate fluctuates quite
strongly from the perspective of the vintner's
water storage capacity of the soil and the age of the vines.
Also among the different production areas,
different harvest situations are emerging. For example, while
the expected harvest volume in Baden
is twelve percent below the average, normal levels are
expected in Pfalz and Nahe, in Wuerttemberg,
Saxony,Middle Rhine, Mosel and Saale-Unstrut an above-average
crop yield is expected.
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