After the disastrous year 2024 with severe frost damage, winegrowers in Saxony are looking forward to the next grape harvest in the fall with confidence. The grapes have developed well and there have been no extreme weather events so far this year. This was the result of an inquiry by the German Press Agency to various producers in Germany's smallest wine-growing region. The grape harvest begins at the end of August.
Good harvest in sight
"Things are looking really good at the moment. There is a lot hanging on the mountain and the grapes are also healthy," said Lutz Krüger, head of Saxony's largest wine producer, the Meißen Winegrowers' Cooperative. With 145 hectares, it manages around a third of the cultivation area in Saxony.
"The basic grape yield is really good," reported Björn Probst, operations manager of the Schloss Proschwitz winery. The heatwave at the end of June and beginning of July did little to harm the vines. "We had good flowering and thanks to intensive soil measures, we got through the heat very well - except in young vineyards."
