Europe account for 45% of the world’s total area under vines (Europe Vineyards Statistics)

Europe is most popular region for wine production in terms of quality and quantity even if there are many surging areas threatening this market leading position of EU.
I would like to see the exact status of vineyards and who own that by country.
This all data is based on 2015 EU Statistics that opened to public.
This vineyards statistics are undated every 5 years. Europe is old and almost matured area that most of things are not change abruptly.
In corona virus pandemic, wine producers and traders seem to have tough season that overall consumption decrease even though slightly household comsumption is getting bigger.
But still the vineyards statistics are almost same with the one of 2015.

Vines were grown in the EU on 3.2 million hectares in 2015.
The EU represented around 45 % of the world’s total area under vines.

The total area under vines in the EU was 3.2 million ha

The total area under vines in the EU was 3.2 million ha in 2015. It represented 1.8 % of the total utilised agricultural area (UAA) in the EU. There were 17 large scale wine grower Member States. Three Member States — Spain, France and Italy — made up close to three quarters (74.1 %) of the EU area under vines and two fifths of the holdings (39.2 %).

Area under vines, 2015 (%)

Source: Eurostat

Portugal, Romania, Greece and Germany were the next largest producers with a total share of 18.2 %.
Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Slovakia followed. Cyprus, the United Kingdom and Luxembourg each had less than 8000 ha of area under vines (0.3 % of the total area under vines).

All regions over 8 % of the utilised agricultural area under vines were located in the France, Spain, Portugal and Greece.

Area under vines, by NUTS 2 regions, 2015
(% of total utilised agricultural area)

Source: Eurostat

The red main varieties covered slightly more than half of the total area

The red main varieties covered slightly more than half of the total area under main varieties (52.7 %) and the white varieties 42.7%. Vines producing for quality wines dominated the EU vineyards: 83.1 % of the area was dedicated to their production.

The vines in the EU are relatively old more than 30 years

The vines in the EU are relatively old: 40.7% of the area was covered at least 30 year old vines and an additional 37.1% by vines between 10 and 29 years old.

The largest holdings were in France

The average vineyard area per holding in the EU was 1.3 ha. The largest holdings were in France where more than 0.8 million ha of vineyards were spread among less than 80 000 agricultural holdings, resulting in an average of 10.5 ha of vineyards per holding. The smallest average vineyard area per holding were reported in Romania (0.2 ha), Croatia (0.4 ha), Slovenia (0.5 ha), Greece (0.6 ha) and Cyprus (0.6 ha); a strong contrast with the situation in France. The other Member States reported areas per holding between 0.9 ha (Portugal) and 4.0 ha (Luxembourg)

Average size of area under vines per wine-grower holding, 2015
(thousands)

Source: Eurostat

In Slovakia, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Spain and Germany more than half of the area under vines were cultivated by holdings with more than 10 ha of vineyards
In contrast in Romania, Cyprus and Greece holdings with less than 1 ha under vines covered more than 40% of the total area under vines.

Area of vineyards by size class of the wine-grower holding, 2015
(ha per holding)

*Source: Eurostat

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