Harvest 2023, good in quantity the North, bad the Center and the South, with drops between -20% and -40%
The estimates of Unione Italiana Vini (Uiv), Ismea and Assoenologi. The average decrease estimated at -12%, for 44 million hectoliters
The average drop in production estimated for the 2023 Italian harvest, at -12% on 2022, for 44 million hectoliters, is not dramatic. But if the North holds, with -2% of Piedmont, for example, and even grows, with + 5% of Veneto and + 15% of Lombardy, for example, from the Center to the South the data are much worse: ranging from -4.5% of Emilia Romagna to -20% of Tuscany and Lazio, from -25% of Marche to -30% of Sicily and Puglia, -40% of Abruzzo, with a situation that puts winemakers in great difficulty: this is the summary picture that emerges from the estimates of the Italian Wine Union (UIV), Ismea and Assoenologi, presented today in Rome.
A harvest, therefore, that is a sort of "two-faced Janus", framed in a scenario, moreover, that can change profoundly, given that the bulk of the harvest will be, say the technicians, between September and October. In any case, downy mildew, the unwanted protagonist of this 2023, especially in the Center and South, has undermined, together with the strong heat, the harvest in quantity, the quality does not seem to have suffered for now, at least according to the data on the sparkling bases and on the earliest varieties already in the cellar.
Source: WINENEWS.IT
