Rheinburgen-Landwein

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The wine-growing area extends between Bingen and Bonn, with the adjacent Siebengebirge, over a length of approximately 110 km along the Mittelrhein valley.
• The valley floor is narrow, and only at 200 to 220 metres above sea level does the tight gorge valley open out into a plateau valley with its older, levelled terraces.
• The vineyards of the Upper Mittelrhein valley are predominantly south-east to south-west facing, while viticulture in the Lower Mittelrhein valley is dominated by sites with south to south-west exposure, with an average aspect of 168° SSE.
• Devonian rocks predominate, with widespread quartzitic sandstones and clay slate, as well as subordinate iron-bearing and chert nodule schists and quartzites.
• The mean annual temperature is 9.7 °C and the mean temperature during the growing season is 14.2 °C, with average annual rainfall of 665 mm, of which approximately 60% falls during the growing season.
• Tertiary rocks, including trachytes, trachytic tuffs, basalts, and latites as volcanic extrusive rocks, are found only in the area around Königswinter and bear witness to former volcanic activity.

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

All appellations in Germany

Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-DE-A1298
• Official trade body site — Deutsches Weininstitut (DWI)