Statistics
Hungary has 69,000 hectares (ha) of productive vineyard area.
The five-year annual average production is 3.5 million hectolitres
(hl) with 70% made from white grapes and 30% made from red grapes.
Olaszrizling, with 7% of all vineyard under production and 10.3% of
white vine plantings, is the most widely planted white grape
followed by Furmint, Cserszegi fűszeres and Chardonnay. Kékfrankos
is the leading red grape accounting for 11.7% of the total vineyard
and 38% of total red grapes planted, followed by Cabernet
Sauvignon, Merlot, Portugieser and Zweigelt.
Some 10,000 companies are involved in grapegrowing and winemaking
with an average vineyard size of 0.5 ha per player. 50% of their
output is classified as quality wine (minőségi bor) with the other
50% classified as table wine and landwine (asztali bor and
tájbor).
Total domestic consumption stands at 3 million hl/per annum with an
average annual consumption of 30-32 liter per head. 48% of domestic
consumption is of white wines while the share of red is 45%, though
increasing, with rosé at 7%. 33% of Hungarian wine consumption is
of dry wines, while 8% is of semi-dry, 50% semi-sweet and 5%
sweet.
Hungary exported 640,000 hl of wine in 2008, representing an 6.8%
drop on the 2007 volume. However, the total export value in 2008 of
€67 million, marked a 1.6% increase on 2007. Consequently the
average export price of Hungarian wine has grown with 8.5% and
reached €1 per litre. Hungary's leading export countries are
Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK and Russia.
