Weinstraße (region)
The Weinstraße, also referred to as the Middle Haardt (''Mittelhardt''), is a region within the Palatinate in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate that was named after the German Wine Road or ''Deutsche Weinstraße''. Geography In a geological sense the Weinstraße is an altitudinal belt (''Höhenstufe'') that is just under 150 metres high in the centre. It is part of the South German Scarplands and forms a hilly zone, about 85 kilometres long and 10 to 15 kilometres wide, that separates the Upper Rhine Plain from the mountains of the Palatine Forest. Its eastern edge is formed by the Haardt with its highest point, the Kalmit (673 m). The German Wine Road runs longitudinally through the region. Climate Favourable thermals cause warm air to climb up the slopes at night, whilst cold air flows down onto the plain, so that on the vine-covered hillsides of the Weinstraße there is a low risk of frost at the time when the vines flower in spring. Thanks to these f ...
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Palatine Wine Region
Palatinate (german: Pfalz) is a German wine-growing region (''Weinbaugebiet'') in the area of Bad Dürkheim, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before 1993, it was known as Rhine Palatinate (''Rheinpfalz''). With under cultivation in 2008, the region is the second largest wine region in Germany after Rheinhessen.German Wine Institute: German wine statistics 2009/2010
There are about 6,800 s producing around 6.5 million s of wine an ...
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