🗺️ Polish wine

Polish wine (wino polskie) is wine made from grapes grown in Poland. It is a small but fast-growing business. On 24 September 2025 the vineyard register listed 724 growers, who farm 1,098.66 hectares of vines between them. The register is kept by the state agency KOWR (Krajowy Ośrodek Wsparcia Rolnictwa, the National Support Centre for Agriculture).

The most vine land is in Lubusz around Zielona Góra, with 165.03 ha. Then come Lesser Poland (138.36 ha) and Lower Silesia (136.56 ha). Lublin Voivodeship has 120.71 ha and West Pomerania 95.20 ha. Among the nine wine areas that the portal enoturystyka.pl names are the Jasło area in Subcarpathia and the Sandomierz–Świętokrzyskie area.

Zielona Góra is called the capital of Polish wine. Winemaking there goes back to the 12th century. The city has Poland's only wine museum, and its harvest festival, Winobranie, has run for nearly 200 years.

Farms are small, at about 1.5 ha per grower on average. Harvests swing widely. In 2017/18 growers brought in 802,829 kg of grapes, and in 2018/19 as much as 1,874,580 kg. In 2021/22 the output was 12,083.71 hl of white wine and 6,358.08 hl of red, nearly twice as much white as red.

The rulebook here is young. The register has existed only since the 2009/2010 marketing year, and the Act on Wine Products of 2 December 2021 has applied since 7 March 2022. A producer must give notice of intent by 15 September, declare stocks by 31 August and report the harvest by 15 January. In June 2023 there were over 500 vineyards on more than 750 ha. By September 2025 the area stood at 1,098.66 ha. For the country's stronger drinks, see Polish vodka (Polska Wódka) and potato vodka.