Uhlen Roth Lay · Vinous

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

Uhlen Roth Lay in Germany

Latitude: 50.3°–50.4° N
Vineyard altitude: 105 m to 206 m
Production zone: 3,482 ha

Lies within
Mosel

Contains 2 appellations (outlined on the zone map)
Uhlen Blaufüsser Lay, Uhlen Laubach

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 Uhlen Roth Lay must meet.

8 wines in the rules, all colours.
Wine	Main grape(s)	Max wine hl/ha	Must weight min.	Actual alc. min. %	After enrichment max. % alc.
Uhlen Roth Lay (quality sparkling wine)	–	70	–	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay (wine)	–	70	–	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay Quality wine	Riesling	70	–	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay Auslese	Riesling	70	105 °Oe	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay Beerenauslese	Riesling	70	130 °Oe	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay Trockenbeerenauslese	Riesling	70	180 °Oe	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay Eiswein	Riesling	70	130 °Oe	–	–
Uhlen Roth Lay Sekt b.A.	Riesling	70	–	11.5	13.5

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.

In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine

7,000

Vines per hectare, minimum

02 · Climate fingerprint

The climate

The growing season averages 14.9 °C, cool on Gregory Jones's scale, with 1,092 growing degree days (Winkler Ia).

The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 129 m

Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season

Growing-season temperature: 14.9 °C; Cool · 13–15 °C (Jones)
Growing degree days: 1,092; Region Ia: under 1,111 degree days
Growing-season rain: 450 mm; Of 758 mm a year
Harvest rain: 123 mm; September–October

Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 5 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 100 m; Vineyard point 2, 142 m; Vineyard point 3, 181 m; Vineyard point 4, 150 m; Vineyard point 5, 71 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. Monzinger NiederbergVery similarCompared with Uhlen Roth Lay: same season warmth, similar rain.

2. Würzburger Stein-BergVery similarCompared with Uhlen Roth Lay: same season warmth, similar rain.

3. Maasvallei LimburgVery similarCompared with Uhlen Roth Lay: same season warmth, similar rain.

Growing-season temperature

Uhlen Roth Lay

14.9 °C

Monzinger Niederberg

14.9 °C

Würzburger Stein-Berg

15.0 °C

Maasvallei Limburg

15.0 °C

Growing degree days

Uhlen Roth Lay

1,092

Monzinger Niederberg

1,087

Würzburger Stein-Berg

1,102

Maasvallei Limburg

1,099

Growing-season rain

Uhlen Roth Lay

450 mm

Monzinger Niederberg

436 mm

Würzburger Stein-Berg

455 mm

Maasvallei Limburg

473 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, 123 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: Uhlen Roth Lay
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 is the only variety named. Quality wine needs at least 88° Oechsle or at most 7.5 g/l acidity (so no unconditional minimum must weight), with residual sugar up to 'semi-dry' up to 100° Oechsle and at most must weight/3 above. Potassium sorbate, lysozyme, dimethyl dicarbonate, electrodialysis, dealcoholisation, cation exchangers, concentration, sweetening and oak chips are not permitted; Prädikatswein may exceed 15 % total alcohol. The area lies within the PDO Mosel.
National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.