Record decrease in Greek wine production in 2023/2024

Historical drop in Greek wine production in 2023/2024, with a decrease of 35.14%, creates issues of adequacy in the wine market, KEOSOE points out. Specifically, at 1,379,433 hl (kiloliters), the volume of wine production in our country in the 2023/2024 wine season was recorded, according to the official notification of the competent department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to the European Commission, a volume that is the lowest of all time. The definitive and based on the Production Declarations of wineries and processors, wine production appears reduced by 35.14% in 2023/2024 compared to the 2022/2023 production (2,126,844 hl), while the wine production forecast filed on September 30 2023 (1,598,344 hl), this too showed a particularly significant drop, of the order of 24.8%, which is in line with DAOK's estimates. Greek wine production is also reduced by 40.2% compared to the average of the previous 5 years. The sharp drop in wine production is mainly ...