Chile takes more than 6,000 hectares of wine vines out of production
SAG’s vineyard register closed 2025 at 110,768 hectares of wine grapes, 5.3% below 2024, with 6,193.9 hectares of wine varieties removed. Emol, citing El Mercurio, frames a deep crisis of weak shipments and heavy stocks.
Chile took more than 6,000 hectares of wine vines out of production.
SAG’s vineyard register, the Catastro Vitivinícola, closed 2025 with 110,768 hectares of wine grapes — 5.3% below 2024. The service recorded a fall of 6,193.9 hectares in wine varieties. Emol published the figures on 2 October 2026, from El Mercurio. The frame is a deep crisis: weak world consumption, falling shipments, heavy stocks in the main markets, and growers forced to cut plantings. The trade, the report says, calls it one of the largest crises in the history of Chilean wine — and that is what drove a wide removal of vineyards.
This is not a comment on one vintage. It is land leaving the wine map. A 5.3% drop in a single year, counted on wine varieties, is the register catching up with wine that did not sell. The public dispatch stops at those three figures. No variety split was given.
What remains is a smaller vineyard asked to carry stocks the last seasons did not clear.
Mini-concept: taking a hectare out of production is a stock decision. The rows that stay have to hold wine the market refused.
Keep: a hard seltzer never lost six thousand hectares of vines. Chile’s wine map did — ask whether the next bottle still has a vineyard under it.
Remember: SAG Catastro Vitivinícola; wine grapes end-2025 at 110,768 ha; −5.3% vs 2024; −6,193.9 ha of wine varieties; weak shipments, heavy stocks; Emol / El Mercurio, 2 Oct 2026.
Source: Emol