The production of rosé wines has reached an all-time high in Germany, while at the same time the trend towards dry wines is continuing, the German Wine Institute (DWI) announced on Friday.
The increase in rosés is at the expense of red wines, it reported, while white wine is once again the most popular.
The share of rosé in quality-tested wines rose from 13 to 16% in 2023 compared to the previous year, said DWI spokesman Ernst Büscher. This increase pushed the share of red wines to 18%. As in the previous year, two thirds of the wines were white.
Just over half, or 51%, of all German quality and superior quality wines on offer were dry. This was one percentage point more than in 2022, but eight percentage points more than 10 years before that in 2013 and 15 percentage points more than 20 years ago in 2003.
At 29%, the proportion of sweet and semi-sweet wines last year was on a par with the previous year.
One in five wines was classed as semi-dry; this proportion had not changed compared to 2003.
A total of 700 million litres of quality and superior quality wines successfully passed the quality wine test. According to the DWI, this corresponds to around 95% of German wine production.
