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Rheingau

Rheingau is a wine region in Germany. A historic Rhine stretch making fuller, structured Riesling.

Where it is

Map data: Candiago; Natural Earth

Places in Rheingau

  • Assmannshäuser Höllenberg

    A steep slate slope at the western end of the Rheingau, planted to Pinot Noir rather than Riesling.

  • Erbacher Marcobrunn

    A flat parcel at the foot of the Erbach slope in the Rheingau, named after the spring that marks its boundary.

  • Hochheimer Domdechaney

    A warm clay slope beside the church at Hochheim, on the Main rather than the Rhine.

  • Hochheimer Kirchenstück

    A parcel around the church at Hochheim, the town whose name English drinkers shortened to hock.

  • Kiedricher Gräfenberg

    A steep stony slope above Kiedrich in the Rheingau, high enough to ripen late into the autumn.

  • Rauenthaler Baiken

    A hillside high above the Rhine plain behind Rauenthal, on stony phyllite ground.

  • Rüdesheimer Berg Rottland

    A slate slope on the Rüdesheim hill facing south to the Rhine, just east of Berg Schlossberg.

  • Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg

    Steep slate terraces at the western end of the Rüdesheim hill, where the Rhine turns north below the Binger Loch.

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Grapes

Producers in Rheingau

  • Weingut Robert Weil

    A Rheingau estate at Kiedrich whose Gräfenberg vineyard is taken across the whole Riesling range, from dry Grosses Gewächs to Trockenbeerenauslese in the years that allow it.

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