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With the 2019 vintage, winegrowers in the Ruwer Valley will be allowed to have the term "Ruwer" printed in large letters on their wine labels for the first time. Winegrowers, associations and local politicians have been working towards this decision for years with the support of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture, says Moselwein e.V..

After the area name Mosel-Saar-Ruwer was shortened to Mosel in the German Wine Law as of 1 August 2007, the wineries in the Ruwer Valley asked themselves how they could emphasise the origin of their wines more strongly. The colleagues in the Saar wine-growing region were a role model. There, the area name is very often found in large letters on wine labels. Almost all larger wineries with vineyards on the Saar offer a "Saar Riesling". These wines have "meanwhile become products with a brand character for many large wineries", writes Moselwein e.V..

On the Ruwer, legal hurdles have so far stood in the way of using the name. German wine law allows the area name to be printed on the label without the addition of "area", provided there are no place names or single vineyard designations with which confusion could arise. Since there were still vineyards in the Ruwer district of Trier that had the term Ruwer as part of their name until a few years ago, it was not possible for wines from other vineyards in the Ruwer valley to use the name of the river without adding the term "Bereich". In 2019, at the suggestion of the Chamber of Agriculture, the vineyard sites in the Trier-Ruwer district, which are now no longer cultivated, were deleted from the list of sites. "This means that there is now no longer any collision with local or single vineyards, which carry the name Ruwer in the wine designation," Moselwein e.V. states.

Ruwer is the smallest of the six wine-growing areas in the Mosel wine-growing region. 180 hectares between Sommerau and Trier-Eitelsbach are planted with vines, almost 90 per cent of which are Riesling. The Ruwer Riesling has been considered a speciality of the Mosel region since the 19th century, with a particular delicacy, minerality and great storability. Around 1900, Ruwer Rieslings were among the most expensive white wines in the world. Since the early 20th century, Ruwer has therefore usually been mentioned in the same breath as Moselle and Saar and eventually became part of the official Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region designation.

(uka / Photo: Tourist Information Ruwer - Eike Bock )

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