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German wine is sold more and more in the dry taste. According to the German Wine Institute (DWI), the share of dry quality and Prädikat wines was 48 percent last year, once again one percentage point higher than the previous year.
"We have been observing an almost continuous increase in the production of dry wines for many years. In 2000, only a third of the wines were bottled in this taste category. In contrast, the proportion of semi-dry wines has remained largely constant at 21 percent for almost 20 years," explained DWI Managing Director Monika Reule.
In absolute figures, the proportion of dry wines corresponds to a volume of 3.5 million hectoliters. According to the DWI, a total of 7.3 million hectoliters of wine were quality-tested last year, distributed over 124,000 batches. Due to the below-average harvest volume of the 2017 vintage, the volume had fallen by four percent. Last year, white wines accounted for 63 percent of German quality and Prädikat wine production. Their share had risen by one percentage point compared to the previous year, as had the share of rosé wines at twelve percent. The growth was at the expense of red wines, which currently account for around a quarter of production.
(uka / Photo: German Wine Institute)