Nahe

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The wine-growing area lies within the triangle formed by the communes of Bingen and Alsenz-Monzingen and encompasses parts of three natural landscape units, including the foothills of the Hunsrück (Soonwald) in the far northeast.
• The northern part belongs to the Northern Upper Rhine Lowland, with the lower Nahe hill country and the lower Nahe plain, while the southern part is assigned to the Saar-Nahe Uplands and the Northern Palatinate Uplands respectively.
• The vineyard area of the Nahe appellation lies at an average elevation of approximately 210 metres above sea level, with viticulture also practised on steep and very steep slopes, such as at the Rotenfels near Bad Münster am Stein and the Steinberg near Niederhausen.
• The average gradient of the Nahe vineyard area is 12.5 percent, characterising it as hillside terrain.
• The oldest rocks date from the Devonian period and include both consolidated marine sediments such as sandstones, clay slates, and quartzites, and metamorphic rocks such as greenschists and phyllites; Rotliegend rocks are the most widely distributed and encompass volcanic latites, andesites, and basalts, alongside Tertiary fluvial sands, coastal sands, and marine marls.

• Viticulture along the Nahe dates back to Roman times, attesting to the long historical continuity of vine cultivation along the river and its tributaries the Glan and the Alsenz. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• For Prädikat wines, growers can achieve higher grape quality during the growing season through targeted canopy-management practices such as leaf removal in the bunch zone or bunch thinning.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

Einzellagen

• Monzinger Niederberg PDO

All appellations in Germany

Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-DE-A1271
• Official trade body site — Weinland Nahe e.V.