![]() Most varieties, even the most widely planted, tend to be grown in a relatively narrow geographic spread: for example, Airen is only cultivated in Spain, Tempranillo tinto only in Spain and Portugal and Trebbiano toscano mostly in France and Italy. The most cultivated main white varieties were Airen (14.9 % of all area under main vine varieties for white wine), Trebbiano toscano (9.9 %) and Chardonnay blanc (7.8 %). In 2020, the most cultivated main red varieties in the EU were Tempranillo tinto (13.8 % of all area under main vine varieties for red wine), Merlot noir (11.5 %) and Garnacha tinta (9.5 %). In Greece, about one-fifth (20.9 %) of vines were for other coloured varieties, particularly for the pink ‘Roditis’ variety. In Spain and Italy, there was a relatively even split between red and white main vine varieties. The red wine varieties accounted for a majority of the vineyard areas in France (63.3 %), Portugal (62.1 %), Cyprus (58.0 %), Bulgaria (55.5 %) and Spain (52.3 %). The main vine varieties for red wine covered 1.5 million ha across the EU in 2020, compared to 1.3 million ha for the main vine varieties for white wine and 0.1 million ha for other colour varieties (or not specified). There are over 500 different ‘main vine varieties’ in the EU, with as many as 96 main vine varieties in Italy alone. The share of small (having a total area of less than 500 ha at national level), often regional varieties was 8.9 %. The main vine varieties in the EU accounted for 91.1 % of all the area planted with vines. Over half of the area under vines for main vine varieties for red wine Despite these losses, the area of vineyards for wine production remained relatively stable (-1.1 %) between 20. There were sharp reductions in the number of vineyard holdings in a number of Member States, but particularly in Portugal (a loss of 98 000 holdings), in Italy (a loss of 78 000 holdings) and in Spain (a loss of 34 000 holdings). ![]() Most of these holding losses came from the very smallest vineyard holdings there were 226 000 fewer holdings than in 2015 in the size class with less than 1 ha of vines. ![]() Quality wine refers to products of both protected designation of origin (2.1 million ha, equivalent to 65.3 % of the EU’s vineyards) and protected geographical indication (0.5 million ha, equivalent to 17.1 %).īetween 20, there were 257 000 fewer vineyard holdings in the EU, equivalent to a 10.3 % reduction. The vast majority (82.4 %) of the EU’s vineyards in 2020 were dedicated to the production of grapes for quality wine. Vines in the EU are relatively old vines over 30 years old in 2020 represented a little over one-third (36.7 %) of the area of the EU’s vineyards in 2020, with a further two-fifths (41.3 %) being accounted for by vines that were between 10 and 29 years old. ![]() Vines for quality wines dominate EU vineyards 82.4 % of the area of vineyards in the EU were dedicated to quality wine production in 2020. The main vine varieties for red wine accounted for a small majority (52.7 %) of all main vine varieties, with those for white wine accounting for most of the rest (44.6 %). However, Romania had the highest number of vineyard holdings in the EU (0.8 million holdings, equivalent to 37.9 % of the EU total in 2020). Spain, France and Italy together accounted for three-quarters (74.9 %) of the area under vines in the EU and about two-fifths (38.7 %) of vineyard holdings in 2020. In 2020, there were 2.2 million vineyard holdings for wine (hereafter termed ‘vineyard holdings’) in the EU, the vast majority of which were very small 83.3 % had less than 1 ha of vineyards. The total area under vines in the EU was 3.2 million hectares (ha) in 2020, equivalent to 2.0 % of the utilised agricultural area (UAA).
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