It’s a fact that doesn’t escape any winegrowing farmer: pruning season is the time where next harvest yields can be anticipated. Yet, concerns are building expectations of an expiration date on the farming of Cyprus Vineyards stemmed by governmental inaction on multiple fronts.

That winegrowers’ express challenges faced by Cyprus’s viticultural sector isn’t new, but it is the successive negative crop seasons, reinforced by the sensation of relegation as no longer being the backbone of the economy, that governmental instances can get away from not taking action to demands that escape policies in the lingering absence of a future path for the agricultural sub-sector, that is grape growing on the island.

Cyprus Viticulture
A Future Path

Although responsabilities for the sector’s plight may rightly point to today’s lack of State direction, it is not more heartening to read wine sector veterans prospecting the farming of Cyprus vineyards as fulfillment of emotional needs as passion projects, rather than the pursuit of viable economic outcomes and development.

The interview published recently, in full Tsiknopempti fervor, salesperson and winemaker jointly expressed with disarray the view of a general abandon, wishing to renew with failed past market models of mass produced grapes, reminiscing the glory days of alcohol distillation by volume, while awaiting with angst, the curbing of wine imports, and market intervention by the state, to ensure the prospect of market favourability for the more affordable local wines, ensuring, it would be κυπριακά above else….

That, above all, needs a RETHINK.

(to be continued)