Dutch wine growers are worried that the proposed ban on adding sugar to the must will make it impossible to make wine in Holland. Virtually all wine made in Holland is chaptalised, since the vines themselves don’t produce enough sugar in the grapes this far north, according to Dik Beker from the Dutch Winegrowers Guild. But perhaps one can wonder why one should make wine at all in a place where the vines cannot ripen enough naturally… Oh, you didn’t know there was wine made in the Netherlands to start with. There are 135 growers who produce 800,000 litres of wine annually. We have tasted it… RadioNetherlands.nl
