Monzinger Niederberg

What is made here

Wine colours

Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.

The source gives no colour for 1 wine category here, so the colours below are incomplete.

Where it is

Monzinger Niederberg in Germany

Latitude: 49.8°–49.8° N
Vineyard altitude: 184 m to 262 m
Production zone: 1,215 ha

Lies within
Nahe

Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.

Boundary drawn from whole communes, so it is a little larger than the legal zone. Boundary: Eurac Research PDO inventory (CC0). Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.

Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.

01 · What the law says

The rules

Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Monzinger Niederberg must meet.

8 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max wine hl/ha	Must weight min.	Grape ripeness min. % pot. alc.	Actual alc. min. %	After enrichment max. % alc.	Acidity min. g/l	Sugar max. g/l
Monzinger Niederberg (wine)	–	75	–	–	–	–	–	–
Monzinger Niederberg Quality wine	Riesling	75	78 °Oe	10.3	11	15	5.5	25
Monzinger Niederberg Kabinett	Riesling	75	78 °Oe	10.3	7	12.5	7	–
Monzinger Niederberg Spätlese	Riesling	75	–	–	7	13.5	7	–
Monzinger Niederberg Auslese	Riesling	75	–	–	7	–	7	–
Monzinger Niederberg Beerenauslese	Riesling	75	–	–	–	–	7	–
Monzinger Niederberg Eiswein	Riesling	75	–	–	–	–	7	–
Monzinger Niederberg Trockenbeerenauslese	Riesling	75	–	–	–	–	7	–

From the official production rules (product specification). Hover a figure to see the clause it comes from. A dash means the rules set no figure, or it is not captured yet.

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 14.9 °C, cool on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,087 growing degree days (Winkler Ia).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 226 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 14.9 °C; Cool · 13–15 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,087; Region Ia: under 1,111 degree days
Growing-season rain: 436 mm; Of 745 mm a year
Harvest rain: 120 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 243 m; Vineyard point 2, 225 m; Vineyard point 3, 182 m; Vineyard point 4, 184 m; Vineyard point 5, 295 m), moved to each point's height from the model's terrain. Indices that need daily data are not captured yet. How the climate figures are made.

Closest climates in the database

Picked by the data, not by hand: the profiles nearest on season warmth (counted twice), degree days, rain, ripening-month nights and day–night range. Neighbours within 30 km are left out, as they share the same weather.

1. Uhlen Roth LayVery similarCompared with Monzinger Niederberg: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. Uhlen Blaufüsser LayVery similarCompared with Monzinger Niederberg: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Uhlen LaubachVery similarCompared with Monzinger Niederberg: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Monzinger Niederberg

14.9 °C

Uhlen Roth Lay

14.9 °C

Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay

15.0 °C

Uhlen Laubach

14.8 °C

Growing degree days

Monzinger Niederberg

1,087

Uhlen Roth Lay

1,092

Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay

1,095

Uhlen Laubach

1,069

Growing-season rain

Monzinger Niederberg

436 mm

Uhlen Roth Lay

450 mm

Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay

450 mm

Uhlen Laubach

450 mm

03 · Year by year

35 vintages

Each column is one growing season: heat above or below the 1991–2020 average, and rain at harvest. Pick a year for the details.

Warmer than averageCooler than averageHarvest rain (Sep–Oct)Average harvest rain, 120 mm

2025

Growing-season temp.
Growing degree days
Harvest rain
Growing-season rain
September nights
Hot days and frosts

Seasons are labelled by harvest year (April–October). Year-to-year changes from ERA5-Land; tested against station records in Alto Adige (r = 0.94 for season temperature at Bolzano). Rain varies more locally, so treat single-season rain with some caution. Vintage ratings, harvest dates and frost or hail events have places in the data model but are not loaded yet.

04 · Where the numbers come from

Sources

A geospatial inventory of regulatory information for wine protected designations of origin in Europe · Candiago et al., Scientific Data 9, 394 (2022); Eurac Research · CC0
ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
OpenStreetMap vineyard areas (landuse=vineyard), from Geofabrik country extracts · OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0
Copernicus DEM GLO-90 (AWS open data tiles) · European Space Agency / Copernicus · Copernicus DEM licence
Product specification: Monzinger Niederberg
Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method

Still to check (3)

Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
From the specification: Riesling only; all wines are white. Quality wine may have up to 25 g/l residual sugar only when total acidity is at least 7.2 g/l, otherwise 18 g/l; quality wine and Kabinett need at least 78° Oechsle (10.3 % vol), higher Prädikat levels follow general law, and Auslese and above may exceed 15 % total alcohol. Maturation in predominantly taste-neutral containers; barrels under 600 litres giving wood aromas, partial dealcoholisation, concentration, oak chips and sweet reserve are prohibited. Vineyards on slopes under 15 % on the plateau are excluded.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.