![]() ![]() A low-yielding 1-acre vineyard that yields 2 tons of grapes makes about 120 cases, or 1,440 bottles, while an acre that yields 10 tons produces about 600 cases, or 7,200 bottles. So 1 ton of grapes yields about 60 cases, or 720 bottles. But let’s assume that 1 ton of grapes is a little more than two barrels, and each barrel contains about 60 gallons, which translates to 25 cases, or 300 bottles. ![]() Of course it depends on what kind of grapes, the skin-to-seed-to-juice ratio, and things like weather (rain just before harvest will add to the liquid content of the grapes), as well as the method of making red wine vs. Generally speaking, a ton of grapes produced enough wine to fill a little more than two standard barrels. Most vineyards produce on average between 2 and 10 tons of grapes per acre. In the U.S., yields are described as tons per acre. There really are a lot of variables that will affect what’s known as a vineyard's "yield." Not just the types of grapes, but how far apart the vines are spaced, how old the grapevines are, what kind of weather the vintage had and how much thinning may have been done in the vineyard. A hectare contains about 2.47 acres, or an acre is about 40 percent the size of a hectare, in case you want to do the conversion in your head.īack to your question, and lucky for you, I have a dear friend who’s a math professor who checked my work. A hectare is a metric area equal to 100 square meters. In other words, it's a little smaller than a football field.Įlsewhere-and in just about every other wine-producing region in the world-the metric system is used. ![]() An acre is believed to have been defined back in the Middle Ages as the amount of land that could be plowed in one day with a yoke of oxen. This is a great excuse to explain the metric unit of hectares to everyone here in the States, and to do some math!įolks in the United States are familiar with the acre as a measurement of land. I’ve answered a version of this question before, but it was about wine produced per acre, not per hectare. How many bottles of wine can be made from a 1-hectare vineyard? ![]()
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