Nahegauer Landwein

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The winegrowing area lies, broadly speaking, within the triangle formed by the villages of Bingen, Alsenz, and Monzingen, and encompasses three distinct natural landscape units.
• In the far northeast, spurs of the Hunsrück — specifically the Soonwald — extend into the winegrowing area.
• The northern part belongs to the Northern Upper Rhine Lowlands, with the Lower Nahe hill country and the Lower Nahe plain, while the southern part falls within the Saar-Nahe Uplands, the Northern Palatinate Highlands.
• The oldest rocks in the winegrowing area date from the Devonian period and include consolidated marine sediments such as sandstones, clay slates, and quartzites, as well as metamorphic rocks such as greenschists and phyllites.
• Rotliegend rocks are by far the most widely distributed, including volcanic Rotliegend formations such as latites, andesites, and basalts; vines also grow on Tertiary deposits such as fluvial sands, coastal sands, and marine marls.
• The average elevation of the vineyard area is approximately 210 metres above sea level, with viticulture practised on steep and very steep sites as well.

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

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-DE-A1293
• Official trade body site — Deutsches Weininstitut (DWI)