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Yup. Similarly my parents grow 1 grape bush for 3 decades already and make wine out of it each year, but it's a hobby, it wasn't commercially viable till a few
by ajuc 5y ago
Yup. Similarly my parents grow 1 grape bush for 3 decades already and make wine out of it each year, but it's a hobby, it wasn't commercially viable till a few years ago.
There were less than 20 wineyards in Poland in 2000 and none in 1990, now there's almost 500.
- IG_Semmelweiss 5y agoCorrelation does not imply causation. Poland was a communist country with closed borders until not long ago. Commercial enterprise was not exactly blooming in the late 90s. In addition, supply chain and shipping costs hadnt yet grown and fallen in price to the level they have today , making new crops a real export opportunity.
- guntars 5y agoAll true, of course, but USSR had wine regions just the same, they just weren't in Poland. This was a surprise for me, but apparently: > The former Soviet Union (FSU) was the fourth largest wine producer in the world in 1980 behind Italy, France, and Spain.
- ajuc 5y agoFarming wasn't forcibly collectivized in Poland unlike in USSR, the split was almost 20% state-owned farming land and 80% small private farms. Both private and state farms grew hops for beer and potatoes/grain for vodka. If wineyards were possible we would have had them.