News
- Published on March 9th, 2012
New team member
As you can see on the website, our team has become bigger. Christian Nastl joined us on 1st February as a new expert in oenology, viticulture and marketing. He is a student of the University of Agricultural Sciences in Vienna. His family runs a well-known wine estate in Langenlois, Lower Austria. It will be a pleasure for Christian to communicate with you.
Successful Laurenz Moser team in 2011
2011 ended as a very good year for business in terms of growth and profit. With regard to quantity, the 3 biggest customer countries were Germany, China and Switzerland. The 3 most important supplier countries were the USA, Macedonia and Spain. Thank you for all the support you provided! We will try hard to render everybody the best possible service in 2012 as well.
Source: Laurenz Moser IV (01/12)
- Published on March 9th, 2012
European wine trade – status quo.
One of the biggest risks to growing wine
- the winter frost – did not have an especially negative influence on the 2012 vintage. Small wine growing areas in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were hit by temperatures as low as -20 °C. Damage levels may run at about 10-20%. However, most of Europe’s vineyards survived the winter without any problems. The real problems in Europe are the very small vintages of Italy and Spain. In both countries, there is a severe lack of some wines. There still is a tendency towards price increases. Nobody knows what will happen until the next vintage. Nowadays, it is often more difficult to find the wines required than it is to sell them. Perhaps the new 2012 vintage from South America will bring some relief.
Source: Laurenz Moser IV (01/12)
- Published on March 9th, 2012
Final Austrian vintage 2011
According to “Statistik Austria”, the official figures for the 2011 Austrian vintage are:
White wine 1,840,040 mill. hl = 65,4 hl/ha Red wine 964,353 mill. hl = 62,0 hl/ha Total 2011 2,814,754 mill. hl = 64,2 hl/ha Total 2010 1,737,454 mill. hl = 39,8 hl/ha 2006-2010 2,393,473 mill. hl = 53,8 hl/ha Area under vine in 2011: 43.800 ha
Wine stocks as at the end of November 2011 were 2.2 mill. hl, which is the lowest figure since 1998. This explains the stable price situation, which is rather high.
Source: Laurenz Moser IV (01/12)