The warm and dry weather is providing good conditions for the vines, although it could still turn around.

The vines are growing extra fast in the heat, so Helle Stokkebye and the other wine farmers are busy trimming the vines. 8 minutes ago

The vines are shooting up extra quickly, and the grape clusters are already getting quite heavy.

The warm weather that has characterised the Danish summer landscape, combined with drought, provides perfect conditions for the vines in Danish soil.

"I can clearly see they are further along than they usually are at this time. They have made it through flowering beautifully. You can tell by the amount of grapes," says Helle Stokkebye, who owns the Stokkebye vineyard between Nyborg and Kerteminde on Funen.

The vines are doing so well this year that at the vineyard they are currently running machinery to cut off the tops because they are growing so fast.

"They grow ten centimetres a day when it has been this warm, and that's quite a lot," she says.

If anyone has previously thought that Danish wine is just sour plonk, they might want to think again, according to Helle Stokkebye:

The more the grapes are allowed to ripen, the better the product ends up in the glass, the Funen winemaker explains.

"We think it's going to taste really good. Lots of ripe grapes, an earlier harvest, but also more depth in flavour," says Helle Stokkebye.

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Large yield in sight – or a ruined harvest

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The enthusiasm is also evident among the vine rows in other parts of the country.

For example with Hans Neergaard Münter, who is chairman of the industry organisation Dansk Vin and who owns Koruplund Vingård on Djursland.

"It just looks really good," he says.

"When we have this kind of weather, we get both some superb grapes and plant growth that is quite vigorous. That means the work in the vineyard is extensive in this weather," he says, as he trims the vines with his pruning shears.

But even though the weather is providing good conditions for the grapes right now, he does not yet know the outcome of the hard work. It is only when the harvest is in at the end of September and beginning of October that the conclusion is final. And things could still go wrong.

"If it pours down from the first of August until harvest, it can ruin all the preparation, and then the harvest won't be very good. But if this weather continues, with a little rain in between, then it will be a super good year," says Hans Neergaard Münter.

At the vineyard on Funen, Helle Stokkebye also dares not predict the yield for certain. Beyond the fact that it looks really promising.

"If we compare it to a year like 2018, which was also very warm and dry, we were up by 30 percent in yield. We are positive and think that this will also be a really, really good wine year," she says.

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