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The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE) has approved about 302 hectares of new vineyards this year. In the application period (01.01. to 28.02.) a total of 2,713 applications for new plantings were received, of which 2,698 applications were approved. As in the previous year, the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate is the front-runner. Most applications were received there. The BLE approved around 228 hectares of new vineyards there. Of these, about 195 hectares were allotted to Germany's largest cultivation area alone: Rheinhessen.
A total of 259.77 hectares are allotted to cultivation regions with protected origin (PDO). First and foremost Rheinhessen (+194.91 ha), the Palatinate (+20.73 ha), Württemberg (+8.32 ha), Saale-Unstrut (+8.10 ha), Saxony (+6.70 ha), Franconia (+6.55 ha) and Mosel (+4.67 ha). But the wine-growing area also continues to grow in northern and eastern Germany. In Lower Saxony 5.23 hectares have been added, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 7.29 hectares and in Schleswig-Holstein 3.67 hectares.
According to German wine law, a maximum of 0.3 per cent of the planted area of the previous year may be approved as new vineyards each year. The distribution of the acreage applied for depends primarily on the location. Preference is given to areas with more than 30 percent slope, followed by areas with 15 to 30 percent slope. Applicants who have received less than 50 percent of the area applied for can return the approved area within one month. This was the case in 2023 with 64 approvals for a total of around 8.5 hectares.
(ru / Source: BLE)