Wine producers are forced to raise prices

Wine producers were forced to carry out double-digit price increases this year, due to the wine’s purchase price increase and due to the growth of production costs – told Varga Péter, owner of the Varga Winery in Badacsonyörs to MTI.

He added that over the past 10, such a price increase did not occured that was implemented in 2011 and in 2012. Last year, wines increased by15 percent and this year  by 10 percent, because of wine production costs and the increase in the prices of raw materials.

He pointed out that while two years ago, a net average of fifty kilograms of grapes was 50 HUF in 2011, 85 to 90 HUF – reports MTI.