Hungary made especially fine wines in 2015

Hungary produced more grapes in 2015 than in the previous years; the reason is that the weather was especially favourable this year. People usually associate quantity with bad quality, but this year’s harvest is a great example of the opposite. All regions had particularly good grapes this year, and many experts foresee 2015 to be the year when astonishing wines were made.

In 2014, 3. 474. 332 hundredweight grapes were harvested (from an area of 57.000 hectares), and 2. 555. 000 hectolitre wine was produced. In 2015, 3. 200. 118 hundredweight grapes were harvested (from an area of 40.000 hectares), and the juice producing rate was 73% which means that 2. 336. 086 hectolitre wine will be produced. Of course these are not the final numbers; the deadline for the harvest rates is 15 December. This year’s amount is estimated to be 30% more than in 2014.

The amount of imported wines fell significantly compared to the previous years: it was 213. 648 hectolitre until this November and it was 357. 000 hectolitre in 2014.

The control fee introduced by the National Council of Wine Communities (HNT) proved to be successful. The import of FN (without a designation of origin or a geographical indication) wines has radically decreased this year, and their control was overtaken by the National Wine Expert Committee (OBB). The amount of exported wines is going to rise significantly compared to 2014, as the Hungarian wine has become widely known and popular abroad.