Asaja Cordoba held its wine sector meeting at the Nuestra Señora de la Aurora Agricultural Cooperative in Montilla to discuss the market situation, the latest developments in the sector and the harvest forecasts for the 2024 campaign.
The president of the Asaja Córdoba wine sector, Juan Manuel Centella, explained just five days after finishing the harvest in Montilla-Moriles that production is in 23 million kilos of grapes It is estimated that the harvest will be short and will reach at most last year’s 26 million kilos. The passerby also finds similar data: 10 million kilos.
“Therefore, it has been a short harvest, but of excellent quality, although prices were far from expectations, although a little higher than previous ones, settling at 80-85 euro cents per kilo of grapes in the cooperatives and around 70 cents in the cellars.
Regarding the red grapealready represents less than 100 hectares in the region, with a production of 600,000 kilos of grapes, and which according to Asaja, is decreasing year by year because it is being pulled out. “The prices are disastrous, around 40 cents per kilo of grapes.”
Centella reported that hectares of vineyards continue to be uprooted and that there are currently about 3,800 hectares in the area. He added that “it is a pending the issue of the area improve promotion“Get the most out of the product, sell it and bet on what is ours,” he concluded.
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