The fate of Hungarian wine is now being decided

After an unusually mild spring and a record-breaking summer, it depends on the weather in the next few weeks how this year's vintage will be in wineries suffering from extremes. We have another month, a little more, during which it will be clear what the vintage will be like. The final game is what largely determines the quality of the fruit, and for us this is the main thing, that is, the quality of the grapes, György Lőrincz, the winemaker of the St. Andrea Szőlőbirtok, told Agrárszektor, emphasizing that he considers himself an eternal optimist. As he said, they plan an excellent vintage every year, and this year is no different. At the same time, he explained: this year has been "extremely difficult" so far. We are talking about a vintage full of plant protection challenges, which had everything: powdery mildew, downy mildew, sometimes black rot appeared, and we also got ice. There was a period when there was a lot of rainfall, and there was also a period of drought. Extremely ...