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
Mosel in Germany
- Latitude
- 49.5°–50.4° N
- Vineyard altitude
- 96 m to 293 m
- Production zone
- 169,774 ha
Contains 3 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay, Uhlen Laubach, Uhlen Roth Lay
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 Mosel must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
66 varieties · Mosel (quality sparkling wine), Mosel (semi-sparkling wine)
Accent, Acolon, Arnsburger, Auxerrois, Bacchus, Blauer Frühburgunder, Blauer Limberger, Blauer Portugieser, Bolero, Bronner, Cabernet Blanc, Cabernet Cortis, Cabernet Cubin, Cabernet Dorio, Cabernet Dorsa, Cabernet Mitos, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Dakapo, Domina, Dornfelder, Dunkelfelder, Ehrenbreitsteiner, Ehrenfelser, Faberrebe, Findling, Gelber Muskateller, Goldriesling, Grüner Veltliner, Huxelrebe, Johanniter, Juwel, Kerner, Kernling, Merlot, Merzling, Morio Muskat, Muller Thurgau, Muskat Ottonel, Müllerrebe, Ortega, Perle, Phoenix, Pinot Noir, Prinzipal, Prior, Regent, Regner, Reichensteiner, Rieslaner, Riesling, Rondo, Roter Elbling, Roter Muskateller, Roter Traminer, Rubinet, Ruländer, Saint Laurent, Saphira, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Schönburger, Solaris, Syrah, Weißer Burgunder, Weißer Elbling
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Allowed
Enrichment (chaptalisation)
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 14.9 °C, cool on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,085 growing degree days (Winkler Ia).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 150 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 14.9 °C
- Cool · 13–15 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 1,085
- Region Ia: under 1,111 degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 488 mm
- Of 860 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 138 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 153 m; Vineyard point 2, 141 m; Vineyard point 3, 146 m; Vineyard point 4, 173 m; Vineyard point 5, 137 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.
Lower confidence:Monthly reanalysis in moderately complex terrain; not yet checked against a weather station.
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. MoselleVery similarCompared with Mosel: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Maasvallei LimburgVery similarCompared with Mosel: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. FrankenVery similarCompared with Mosel: same season warmth, similar rain.
Growing-season temperature
Growing degree days
Growing-season rain
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, 138 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
- Single document: Mosel (Official Journal C, C/2026/1628, 11.3.2026; and the product specification 'gU Mosel_111219.pdf' from the EU register) · European Union, Official Journal (C series) · EU law (Commission reuse policy)
- 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: The document sets no minimum alcohol, acidity or sugar limits; wines made without enrichment may exceed 15 % total alcohol. Wines carrying a single-vineyard or smaller-unit name must be at least 85 % Weißer Riesling and/or Blauer Spätburgunder (Saar, Ruwertal, Bernkastel and Burg Cochem districts) or Chardonnay, Ruländer, Weißer Burgunder and/or Blauer Spätburgunder (Moseltor and Obermosel), and cannot be rosé, Weißherbst, Blanc de Noir or Rotling. The national product specification (Rheinland-Pfalz figures) sets must weights by variety; the lowest is recorded per product. Others: Qualitätswein Müller-Thurgau 58 °Oe, other varieties 60 °Oe, Dornfelder 68 °Oe; Kabinett 73 °Oe for varieties other than Elbling; Spätlese 85 °Oe and Auslese 93 °Oe for other white varieties (reds 80 and 88 °Oe); Sekt 57 °Oe for varieties other than Elbling and Riesling. Rotling must weight is left open because it depends on the varieties blended. The minimum actual strength of 5.5 % vol is written for 'Beerenauslese etc.' and recorded for Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswein. Prädikatswein may not be enriched; Sekt made by bottle fermentation must spend at least 9 months in bottle.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.