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May 2026 U.S. Consumer Price Changes (vs. May 2025):
CPI +4.2%, food +3.1%, gasoline +40.5%.
Goods relying on immigrant labor: tomatoes +32%, lettuce +24.9%, gardening services +10.8%.
Beef +12.9% outpaced pork +2.6% and poultry +1.3%.
Wine away from home +1.9%; wine at home -0.5%.
Poland’s Wine Imports, 2025.
Poland imported $449M worth of wine in 2025, with Italy accounting for 31% of total import value and 25% of volume. Among the top 5 exporters, France commands the highest price at $4.62/L, while Spain is the most affordable at $2.13/L.
Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919), Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880/81. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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Grape harvest in Grünberg in Silesia, Prussia (now Zielona Góra, Poland) in 1900. Colorized postcard. Grünberg was the only Prussian wine-growing region outside the Rhenish territories awarded after the Napoleonic wars in 1815.
French Renault vineyard tractor ad from the late 1950s, likely promoting the Renault D22 Vigneron — one of several specialized narrow tractors engineered to fit tight vineyard rows. It documents a major productivity shift in French viticulture during that period.
Poland's vineyard sector is expanding rapidly. The number of registered vineyard owners grew more than 33-fold, from 21 in 2010 to 703 in 2025. Average area per owner has declined from a peak of nearly 2.8 hectares in 2013 to around 1.5 hectares today, reflecting an influx of small-scale producers.
Main Wine Grape Varieties in Poland, 2022. A sizeable share consists of PIWI varieties, i.e., fungus-resistant varieties.
Italy's organic vineyard landscape varies widely across regions. Marche tops the chart at 53%, followed by Calabria (49%) and Tuscany & Sicily (both 40.6%). Meanwhile, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto, and Sardinia all remain below 10%.
My Brooklyn grapevine has been overrun by Spotted Lanternfly nymphal instars. The Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive species native to China that is a major threat to vineyards. They are sap-feeders and pierce the plant tissue with their needle-like mouthparts and suck out phloem sap.
Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922-1993) Still Life with Knife and Wine Bottle, 1943, oil on canvas board, 49.5 x 42.5 cm.
