Niederlausitz ( Lower Lusatia) is a small region for

table wine Table wine (rarely abbreviated TW) is a wine term with two different meanings: a style of wine and a quality level within wine classification. In the United States, the term primarily designates a wine style: an ordinary wine which is not fortif ...

and country wine in eastern

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

, which was defined in an amendment to the German wine law in 2007. It is located in

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

, which is the federal state surrounding

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. The designation Brandenburger Landwein is used for country wines from this region.Weinverordnung (WeinV 1995), updated until Art. 1 V v. 11.3.2008 I 383
§ 1 for Tafelwein and § 2 for Landwein Lower Lusatia is not part of the 13 well-established

German wine German wine is primarily produced in the west of Germany, along the river Rhine and its tributaries, with the oldest plantations going back to the Ancient Rome, Roman era. Approximately 60 percent of German wine is produced in the state of Rhine ...

regions for quality wine (usually referred to as ''Anbaugebiete''), and is located to the north of all of them, but south of

Stargarder Land Stargarder Land is an ''Amt'' in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The seat of the ''Amt'' is in Burg Stargard. Subdivision The ''Amt'' Stargarder Land consists of the following municipalities: # Burg Sta ...

, which was defined in 2004. This means that Lower Lusatian wineries are not allowed to produce wine of all quality levels of the German wine classification. Only the lower part - ''Tafelwein'' (table wine) and ''Landwein'' (country wine) - and not the higher "quality wine" categories ''Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete'' (QbA) and '' Prädikatswein'' may be produced. Currently, the Niederlausitz region covers only of vineyards spread out over 14 locations. A peculiar aspect of the Niederlausitz region is that some of the vineyards are planted in former coal strip mines.Tagesspiegel.de August 25, 2007: Tagebau Kabinett – Wein aus Lausitzer Landen
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