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The Canary Islands-Canary Wine DOP has concluded the harvest campaign 2025 surpassing the 1,3 million kilos, and 18 % less compared to previous campaigns
The Protected Designation of Origin Canary Islands-Canary Wine the harvest campaign has concluded 2025 surpassing the 1,3 million kilograms of grapes harvested. The institution has reported in a press release. This figure represents a reduction of the 18 % compared to previous campaigns, “consequence of the stress accumulated by the vineyards after seven years of drought, the irregularity in sprouting and unfavorable weather conditions that have directly affected various wine-growing areas of the archipelago”, cited in the statement.
Added to this is, in the opinion of the DOP, “the impact derived from the administrative management after the detection of phylloxera in Tenerife”, that blocked the movement of harvested grapes between certain regions and islands, “damaging several wineries”. From the DOP “It is expected that this situation will be corrected and will not be repeated in future campaigns.”.
Despite the decrease in volume, the DOP Canary Islands-Canary Wine “is consolidated, after eleven years of experience, as the most important Designation of Origin in the Canary Islands, also managing to harvest more grapes than the five regional denominations combined for the first time in Tenerife.”.
Among the advantages of the DOP organizational model pointed out in the statement, stand out “the pyramidal classification of wines, that guarantees the identity of each operator; support for domestic and international marketing through the Third Countries Program; and the commitment to digitalization, the ecological transition and R&D&i”.
In this sense, the DOP promotes projects such as ECOVITIS, that applies artificial intelligence to crop management, and plant sanitation programs “that will make it possible to have healthy native varieties, more resilient and productive, with the aim of improving the profitability of farms, stop the abandonment of the vineyard and promote generational change”.
At the moment, the PDO managed by AVIBO (Association of Viticulturists and Winemakers of the Canary Islands) has 54 attached wineries, 817 registered winegrowers and 621 hectares of vineyard.
