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Viticulture In terms of total wine production, Germany is number seven in the world ratings. However, in terms of total area under vines it comes no higher than fifteenth. When these two figures are put side by side it means that Germany has by far the highest yields per hectare of any major European wine-producing country. In the 1986 vintage this was as high as 108 hl/ha. If one considers that many German vineyards, especially the best sites, are planted on steep hillsides, where the yields are by necessity limited, one can only conclude that the yields from some of the vineyards on the plains must be gargantuan. Different cultivation techniques are employed, depending largely on the topography of the vineyards. The longest established sites tend to be found close to rivers and often on steeply graded slopes, in order to take maximum advantage of the most favourable aspects and best soils for the grape variety in question. These sites are frequently devoted to the production of the richer categories of QmP wines from grapes which are picked late. On these steep and sometimes terraced slopes, the vines are individually planted, perhaps 1.3 metres apart, and attached to a single stake. Much of the work is therefore performed manually; it requires skill, and is of course costly. As a result, a major problem vinegrowers on steep slopes face is that the price differential between their wines and those from other vineyards does not adequately reflect production costs. For this reason it is possible to see in places, the lower Saar, for instance, many abandoned vineyards. ' . tep_image_button('button_continue.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_CONTINUE) . ''; ?>

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