Dutch wineries—there are 165 of them—produced 1.3 million bottles of wine last year, a big surge created in part by a record number of sun hours this past summer.
Production was helped by a jump of 385 gallons per acre, according to the winemakers’ association VNWP.
The increase in volume of Dutch wine, and increasing quality wines, is not due only to climate change. Starting in 2000, a number of Dutch farmers received EU subsidies to change cropland to grapes, and they have continued to develop wines based on cold-resistant grapes.
