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Correlation does not imply causation.

Poland was a communist country with closed borders until not long ago.

Commercial enterprise was not exactly blooming in the late 90s.

In addition, supply chain and shipping costs hadnt yet grown and fallen in price to the level they have today , making new crops a real export opportunity.

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All true, of course, but USSR had wine regions just the same, they just weren't in Poland. This was a surprise for me, but apparently:

> The former Soviet Union (FSU) was the fourth largest wine producer in the world in 1980 behind Italy, France, and Spain.

Farming wasn't forcibly collectivized in Poland unlike in USSR, the split was almost 20% state-owned farming land and 80% small private farms. Both private and state farms grew hops for beer and potatoes/grain for vodka. If wineyards were possible we would have had them.

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