Moselle (wine-growing region)

Data
Wine region :	Moselle
Country :	Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland
Viticulture since:	1st century
Surface:	8770  ha (2017)
Table wine : Quality wine : Prädikatswein :	1.9% 79.2% 18.9% (2017)
Wine Queen 2019/2020 :	Marie Jostock, Köwerich
Website:	www.msr-wein.de
German wine-growing regions

Riesling

Workers in the steep slope Doktorberg , Bernkastel district, May 1954

Steep slopes on the Moselle: Zell in the foreground, Kaimt in the back right, view from the Collisturm in direction south.

Vineyard in Brauneberger Juffer

Ürzig (front), Erden (right back), the mountain is the 360 ​​m high Borberg

Wine-growing area in the administrative district of Trier, 1868

Wine-growing area in the Coblenz administrative district, 1897

Mosel describes a German wine-growing area for quality wine of certain growing areas (QbA) in the valley of the Moselle with the secondary valleys of Saar and Ruwer according to § 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 Wine Law . Until 2006 the area was called Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. Cities are Saarburg , Konz , Trier , Schweich , Bernkastel-Kues , Traben-Trarbach , Zell , Cochem and Koblenz . The largest wine villages according to vineyards are Piesport , Zell (Moselle) , Leiwen , the Konzer Tälchen , Neumagen-Dhron , Mehring , Bernkastel-Kues and Trittenheim .

General

In the region is one of the oldest Roman cities in Germany , Trier ( Augusta Treverorum ), the oldest wine village in Germany, Neumagen , with the Roman Neumagen wine ship and the oldest mill north of the Alps , the Karlsmühle of Roman origin near Mertesdorf .

The region is the largest steep-slope wine-growing area in the world and, with over 5,393 hectares, the largest Riesling cultivation area in the world. In 2017, 544,080 hectoliters of wine were produced in the region. The steepest vineyard in the world is the Bremmer Calmont with a slope of approx. 65 degrees. In many cases, the single pole education or Moselle pole education, which has been known since Roman times, still dominates , but is also gradually being replaced by modern wire systems on the steep slopes . The soils in the Moselle wine region consist of slate (Saar, Ruwer, Central and Lower Moselle) and shell limestone (Upper Moselle). 1967 was Weinbruderschaft Mosel-Saar-Ruwer.

The area designation "Mosel-Saar-Ruwer" was first created by the wine law of 1909. Wine labeling with "Mosel-Saar-Ruwer" took place from 1936. Anyone who buys a wine from the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region from autumn 2007 will be on the Only find the label "Mosel". The federal cabinet decided on August 9, 2006 in Berlin to change the Wine Act accordingly. "That is the wish of the winegrowers from the region," said Vice Government Spokesman Thomas Steg in Berlin. From his point of view, the term “Moselle” could better establish itself internationally.

The Bernkasteler Doctor , which is said to be one of the most expensive agricultural soils in Germany , is located in the growing area . The Bernkasteler Ring e. V. (founded in 1899) and the Große Ring VDP Mosel-Saar-Ruwer e. V. (founded in 1908) regularly hold wine auctions.

Top quality wines in the predicate wine category can reach prices of several hundred euros per 0.75 l bottle at auctions. On the other hand, bottlings for consumption in the lower price segments (100,000 hl: 568,000 hl) are proportionately large in the “quality wine” category. Wines from the Moselle are viewed by the general public as being fruity, sweet and with a lower alcohol content. Around 668,000 hl of wine that was tested in 2017 and declared “Mosel” were expanded to include approx. 404,000 hl in the sweet and sweet taste (approx. 172,000 dry, approx. 92,000 semi-dry).

In 1868, on behalf of the Royal Government of Trier, the Saar and Moselle winegrowing map for the Trier administrative district was created under the direction of the Royal Cadastral Inspector Steuerrath Clotten. In 1897 a Moselle viticulture map for the Coblenz administrative district followed . These maps show a classification of the vineyards in three categories, which followed a value classification taking into account property prices and income in the 19th century. It was not a mapping to mark the quality levels of the wine, but served as a basis for assessment for tax assessment. The Association of German Prädikatsweingüter used this creditworthiness certificate to allow its members to label dry wines from a location in the 1st category with the name Großes Gewächs from 2002 onwards . Moselle wine bottles with a "1L" mark embossed in the glass (first layer) belong to the highest quality and price category.
The forerunner of this classification was the Classification des Vignes issued in France in 1802 , which was also used in the wine-growing regions on the left bank of the Rhine. With the proviso that "... that the area with the largest harvest volume is not automatically the best", vineyard parcels could be classified into one of three categories, using vegetation, cultivation and revenue as criteria. After 1815, the financial administration of the Prussian Rhine Province largely took over this tax assessment system. The land surveying with a binding cadastre, which was carried out up to the middle of the 19th century, showed all wooded areas and - in different colors - the respective category of the quality of the location or the property value.

Vineyards

In the cultivation area, the six areas of Burg Cochem , Bernkastel , Ruwer , Upper Moselle , Moseltor and Saar with 19 large locations and around 520 individual locations are distinguished. If you allocate individual layers that are located in several districts to the respective municipalities, you get 541 individual layers in Rhineland-Palatinate alone, to which the six Saarland would have to be added. 5,258 winegrowers (as of 2005) from the 125 wine villages on the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer cultivate the vines on 8,770 hectares of vineyards and produce around 668,000 hl of wine (of which around 36,000 hl is red wine) per year. About 40% of the vineyard areas are located on banks with a 30% to over 60% gradient (steep vineyards).

See also : List of major locations in the Moselle

Grape varieties

91% of the vineyards are planted with white grape varieties.

Riesling (60.5%) and Müller-Thurgau (approx. 14.0%) dominate the range of white wines . Elbling (6.1%), Kerner (4.0%) and Pinot Noir (4.0%) are also grown to a significant extent .

Leading grape varieties in the Moselle growing region (as of 2008)
variety	colour	synonym	Surface (%)	Area (ha)
1. Riesling	White		60.5	5.384
2. Müller-Thurgau	White	Rivaner	14.0	1,256
3. Elbling	White		6.1	546
4. Kerner	White		4.0	376
5. Pinot Noir	red	Pinot Noir	4.0	352
6. Dornfelder	red		3.6	332
7. White Burgundy	White	Klevner, Pinot Blanc	2.7	235
8. Bacchus	White		0.9	84
9. Pinot Gris	White	Marginal lands	0.8	67
10th Regent	red		0.7	61
11. Chardonnay	White		0.4	33
12. Reichensteiner	White		0.3	26th
13. Ortega	White		0.2	20th
14. Optima	White		0.2	16
15. Boulder	White		0.2	16
16. Auxerrois	White		0.2	13
18. St. Laurent	red		0.1	11
19. Miller's vine	red	Pinot Meunier	0.1	10
20. Dark fields	red		0.1	9
21. Merlot	red		0.1	8th
22. Frühburgunder	red		0.1	8th
23. Sauvignon Blanc	White		0.1	5
24. Gewürztraminer	White		0.1	5

Source: Rhineland Palatinate State Statistical Office

White varieties

Approved white grape varieties
Albalonga Arnsburger Auxerrois Bacchus Bronner Chardonnay Ehrenbreitsteiner Ehrenfelser Elbling Faberrebe Boulder Freer Formerly Malingre Yellow muscatel Gewürztraminer	Gold Riesling Pinot Gris Gutedel Hibernal Holder Huxelrebe Johanniter jewel Chancellor Kerner Kernling Mariensteiner Merzling Morio nutmeg Müller-Thurgau (Rivaner)	Nutmeg Ottonel Noble Optima Orion Ortega Osteiner pearl Phoenix Principal Sprinkler Reichensteiner Rieslaner Riesling Sauvignon Blanc Scheurebe	Schoenburger Septimer Winning vine Silcher Silvaner Sirius Staufer White Burgundy Flavoring

Red varieties

Approved red grape varieties
Acolon Blue burger Cabernet Mitos Cabernet Sauvignon Dakapo Opaque red Dominatrix	Dornfelder Dark fields Pinot Noir Hegel Helfensteiner Herald vine Lemberger	Merlot Hall Portuguese regent rondo Rotberger Black Riesling	Pinot Noir St. Laurent Dove black Trollinger Zweigelt

Source: Taschenbuch der Weinsorten , Fachverlag Fraund

Floors

Soil type	Occurrence	Cultivation (predominantly)
Muschelkalk and Keuper	Moselle Gate and Upper Moselle	Elbling, Auxerrois, Pinot Blanc
Devonian slate	Saar, Ruwer and Middle Moselle	Riesling
Slate and silica-rich greywacke	Lower Moselle	Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Elbling, Müller-Thurgau

Grand Cru and First Location

The Grand Cru -Weinlagen by Hugh Johnson are:

• Wiltinger Scharzhofberg , Saar
• Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg , Ruwer
• Karthäuserhofberg , Ruwer
• Piesporter gold droplets , Moselle
• Canon of Piesport , Moselle
• Brauneberger Juffer sundial , Moselle
• Bernkasteler Doctor , Mosel
• Wehlener sundial , Moselle
• Ürziger Würzgarten , Moselle
• Ediger Elzhofberg , Moselle
• Erdener Prelate , Moselle
• Erdener podium , Moselle
• Bremmer Calmont , Moselle
• Winninger Uhlen , Moselle
• Winninger Röttgen, Moselle
• Hatzenporter Kirchberg, Moselle

The VDP has defined the following layers (of its members) as first layers . However, the classification was only made for the sites that members of the Vdp cultivate. Other locations were not considered by the VdP.

• Winninger Uhlen , Moselle
• Winninger Röttgen, Moselle
• Hatzenporter Stolzenberg, Moselle
• Hatzenporter Kirchberg, Moselle
• Pündericher Marienburg , Moselle
• Pündericher nun garden, Moselle
• Erdener podium , Moselle
• Ürziger Würzgarten, Moselle
• Wehlener sundial , Moselle
• Graacher Josephshöfer, Moselle
• Graacher Domprobst, Moselle
• Bernkasteler Lay, Moselle
• Bernkasteler Doctor , Mosel
• Brauneberger Juffer, Moselle
• Brauneberger Juffer sundial , Moselle
• Wintricher Ohligsberg, Moselle
• Piesporter gold droplets , Moselle
• Piesporter Schubertslay, Moselle
• Dhroner Hofberg, Moselle
• Leiwener Laurentiuslay, Moselle
• Kaseler Nieschen , Ruwer
• Eitelsbacher Karthäuserhofberg , Ruwer
• Wawerner Goldberg, Saar
• Kanzemer Altenberg , Saar
• Wiltinger Braunfels, Saar
• Wiltinger Gottesfuß, Saar
• Scharzhofberger , Saar

Winemaker of the year

Winegrower of the year according to Gault-Millau from the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer area:

1. 1994: Wilhelm Haag, Fritz Haag winery, Brauneberg / Mosel
2. 1995: Carl von Schubert, Maximin Grünhaus winery , Mertesdorf / Ruwer
3. 1996: Manfred Prüm, Joh. Jos. Prüm, Bernkastel-Wehlen / Mosel
4. 1998: Egon Müller, Egon Müller-Scharzhof winery , Wiltingen / Saar
5. 2001: Ernst Loosen, Dr. Loosen, Bernkastel / Mosel
6. 2005: Christoph Tyrell, Karthäuserhof winery , Eitelsbach / Ruwer
7. 2007: Theo Brille, Weingut Brille, Piesport / Mosel
8. 2017: Hans Joachim and Dorothee Zilliken, Weingut Zilliken

Winegrower of the year according to the DLG from the Moselle area

1. 2007: Patrick Philipps, Philipps-Eckstein winery, Graach-Schäferei / Mosel

Wineries (selection)

Numerous villages along the Moselle are still characterized by viticulture. Hundreds of wineries mostly manage small to medium-sized businesses with several hectares of vineyards. The renowned wineries include:

• Episcopal wineries (Trier)
• Deinhard , Koblenz
• Dominican winery C. von Nell-Breuning , Kasel / Ruwer
• Karthäuserhof , Trier-Eitelsbach, Ruwer
• Paulinshof , Kesten
• Max Ferdinand Richter winery , Mülheim on the Moselle
• von Schubert'sche Weingutverwaltung Schloss Grünhaus , Mertesdorf-Grünhaus
• State wine-growing domain Trier
• Othegraven winery , Kanzem, Saar
• Erben von Beulwitz winery , Mertesdorf
• Karlsmühle winery , Mertesdorf
• Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt winery , Morscheid
• Philipps-Eckstein winery, Graach-Schäferei
• Springiersbacher Hof winery , Ediger
• Van Volxem winery

In Bernkastel-Kues, the largest German wine cooperative, Moselland eG, has its headquarters. In addition, various large wine and sparkling wine cellars such as Peter Mertes (Bernkastel-Kues), Franz Wilhelm Langguth Erben (Traben-Trarbach), Zimmermann-Graeff & Müller (Zell), Sektkellerei Herres (Trier) or Schloss Wachenheim (also Trier) have their headquarters.

Wine queens

The Moselle Wine Queen , until 2006 Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Wine Queen , has been the representative of the wine-growing region elected annually since 1949.

tourism

The wine-growing region is marketed partly as the “Mosel” wine region and partly as the “Mosel-Saar” wine region. There are several tourist roads in the region . The Luxembourg Wine Route , located on the Upper Moselle, leads from Bad Mondorf via Schengen to Wasserbillig . The Elbling Route runs on the German side of the Upper Moselle. The Saar-Riesling-Straße runs along the lower Saar from Serrig to the mouth of the Saar in Konz. The Ruwer-Riesling-Weinstraße runs through the lower Ruwertal. The Moselle Wine Route is about 250 km long and leads from Perl via Trier to Koblenz at the Deutsches Eck .

Cycle paths in the region are for example the Moselle cycle path , the Saar cycle path or the Ruwer cycle path . Car-free adventure days are Happy Mosel (until 2017) between Schweich and Cochem or Saar Pedal from Konz to Merzig. Since 1910 there has been a hiking trail along the Moselle heights in Eifel or Hunsrück, the Moselhöhenweg . In April 2014 the Moselsteig Trail , alternating on both sides of the Moselle valley, was opened.

See also

• Zeltinger Himmelreich - an operetta that promotes Moselle wine
• Viticulture in Luxembourg , viticulture in Eastern France
• Wine festival
• Vintages
• Viticulture in Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

• Richard Laufner, City of Trier Tourist Office (ed.): 200 years of quality viticulture on the Moselle-Saar-Ruwer . The viticulture ordinances of Trier Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus 1787. trier texte, Trier 1987.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Koch: Viticulture on the Moselle and Saar. Lintz, Trier 1881 ( online edition dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate ).
• Moselle wines . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 11, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 823.
• Felix Meyer: Viticulture and wine trade on the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer . Görres, Koblenz 1926 ( dilibri.de ).
• Dieter Braatz, Ulrich Sauter, Ingo Swoboda, Hendrik Holler: Wine Atlas Germany . 1st edition. Hallwag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8338-0638-4 .
• Stuart Pigott , Andreas Durst, Ursula Heinzelmann , Chandra Kurt , Manfred Lüer, Stephan Reinhardt: Wine speaks German . 1st edition. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4 .
• Stuart Pigott , Manfred Lüer, Andreas Durst: Mosel. Wines, winemakers, landscapes . 1st edition. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15173-9 .
• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .
• André Dominé (Ed.): Wine . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2765-6 .
• Helmut Prössler: Koblenz 2000 years and the wine . In: Writings on wine history . No. 107 . Society for the History of Wine, 1993, ISSN  0302-0967 .

Web links

Commons : Moselle wine-growing region  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature from and about the Moselle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mosel wine e. V.
• Historic wine-growing landscapes on the Moselle
• Vineyards in the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine-growing region
• Link catalog on leisure, wine, Moselle at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Link catalog on the subject of shops, wine, Moselle at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} German Wine Institute : Statistics 2018-2019 . Bodenheim 2019 ( deutscheweine.de [PDF]).
2. ↑ dilibri.de
3. ↑ dilibri.de
4. ↑ Helmut Prößler: Koblenz 2000 years and the wine. 1993, p. 12ff.
5. ^ Mosel - data + facts at www.weinland-mosel.de.
6. ↑ Chamber of Agriculture Rhineland-Palatinate  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ German Wine Institute : Statistics 2009/2010; Federal Office of Statistics
8. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinlandpfalz (Hrsg.): Planted vineyards of the wine grapes 1989–2009 according to selected grape varieties and growing areas . Mainz 2009 ( statistik.rlp.de ).
9. ↑ [1] Cooperatives with 65 billion euros in sales on meininger.de, accessed on August 24, 2020
10. ↑ Wine region: Mosel-Saar . Rhineland-Palatinate Tourism website. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
11. ↑ From 2014: Hiking on the Moselsteig Trail . Rhineland-Palatinate Tourism website. Retrieved April 16, 2014.