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The Mosel wine region, located almost entirely in the state of
Ruwer-Riesling e.V.: Weinlagen
accessed on June 14, 2009 There is no collective vineyard site (''Großlage'') in Ruwertal.
Rhineland-Palatinate
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, with a small part in Saarland
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, is one of the 13 regions (''Anbaugebiete'') for quality wine in Germany
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defined in the federal wine legislation. For each of the quality wine regions, the state where the vineyards are located keeps a formal vineyard roll (''Weinbergsrolle'') which lists all formally recognised vineyard
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s of the region, with detailed surveying maps defining the geographical extent of each vineyard. Thus, the full list of Mosel vineyards in fact consist of separate lists in two German states. These lists defines which geographical designations may appear on the wine labels
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. The lists includes single vineyard designations (''Einzellagen''), which are grouped together into collective vineyards (''Großlagen''). Both single and collective vineyard designations are used together with village names.
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate lists the following vineyards. The vineyards are listed by district (''Bereich'') broadly from west to east, in the downstream direction of the river Moselle.
District Moseltor
The following vineyards are defined for Moseltor.District Obermosel
District Saar
District Ruwertal
The following single vineyard sites are defined for Ruwertal.accessed on June 14, 2009 There is no collective vineyard site (''Großlage'') in Ruwertal.
District Bernkastel
District Burg Cochem
See also
Piesporter
Piesporter is a wine made in and around the village of Piesport on the north bank of the Mosel wine region of Germany. A white, light body wine that ranges from dry to off-dry, it can be made from Riesling, Müller-Thurgau, or Elbling grapes.
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A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineyards ...