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Mosel
The Mosel is where Germany's most ravishingly elegant wines are made.
The region — some 21,700 acres (8,800 hectares) — is defined by the hauntingly beautiful and eerily still Mosel River, which cuts a deep, snakelike gorge through the land, entering Germany where the country converges with Luxembourg and France and winding about 145 miles northeast until it empties into the Rhine near Koblenz; the Saar and the Ruwer are its small tributaries.
The Mosel's greatest grape is riesling, but that states the case too simply, for here riesling is turned into wines of such crystalline clarity they are like glittering sunlight on a subzero day.
Key grapes
- Riesling
- climate
- cold and northern, with modest sunlight — about a third of Provence's growing-season hours in a good year
- soil
- famous grey-blue slate, which holds heat and helps riesling ripen
- signature
- riesling of crystalline clarity and ravishing elegance
- topography
- the steepest vineyards in Germany and among the steepest in the world (Calmont: 60-70 degrees)
- size
- 21,700 acres (8,800 ha) along a 145-mile river gorge
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