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The harvest amount was 2.33 million hectoliters (hl), as Statistics Austria announced on Friday. This was 7 percent below the average of the past five years and 8 percent below that of 2022. At minus 15 percent to 668,800 hl, red wine recorded a greater decline compared to the previous year than white wine, with minus 4 percent to 1.66 million hl .
For quality and predicate wines, production fell by 6 percent year-on-year to 2.16 million hl. While white quality and quality wines fell by 3 percent to 1.56 million hl, red quality and quality wines fell by 13 percent to 603,800. There was a significant decline of 29 percent to 132,700 hl in the wine/country wine segment (including varietal wine and Sturm).
Due to unfavorable weather conditions such as heavy rain, Styria performed particularly poorly when compared to other federal states. The production volume of 190,700 hl was 17 percent below that of the previous year. In Burgenland the decline was 11 percent to 584,000 hl, in Vienna 10 percent to 22,900 hl. Due to the high proportion of white wine, Lower Austria only recorded a decrease of 5 percent to 1.53 million hl.
Maximum value for wine inventory
Meanwhile, the wine inventory was recorded in 2023 with 3.05 million hl. reached a maximum value. Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to an increase of 4 percent, and compared to the five-year average, this represents an increase of 6 percent. White wine stocks increased by 1 percent to 1.73 million hl compared to the previous year. increased, for red wine by 8 percent to 1.32 million hl.
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