Wine-growing areas in the southwest are getting bigger and bigger

Many vintners in the southwest have greatly increased their vineyards over the past ten years.

In 2020, a company grew an average of 3.9 hectares (39,000 square meters) of wine, as the State Statistical Office announced on Monday.

Ten years earlier, the farms had an average of one hectare less vineyard area.

Stuttgart - Larger wineries in particular expanded their acreage.

To do this, they bought up the vineyards of smaller businesses, said a spokeswoman.

According to the statistics, the businesses of the full-time winemakers comprised an average of around 6.2 hectares of vineyards.

They managed more than 71 percent of the more than 25 540 hectares of cultivation area in Baden-Württemberg.

An average part-time winemaker grew wine on around 1.7 hectares.

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There is also a nationwide trend towards larger areas.

Larger cultivation areas enable the winegrowers to work more economically and to make better use of their machine capacities, explained the Württemberg winegrowing association.

The number of sideline businesses has been falling for years and is expected to decrease in the years to come.

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