This year will definitely not go down as another vintage of the century in Germany. Too cold and too wet would sum up its shortcomings in a nutshell, although if you were to use the shell of a really big nut, you might also be able to fit in the words Drosophila suzukii, the spotted wing drosophila or Asian fruit fly.
Although a little more about the unpleasant habits of this less-than-endearing insect will be revealed below, the foundations for its detrimental effects on a considerable part of Germany's 2014 grape crop were already laid in the preceding winter...