Wine region | |
Years of wine industry | Since 1st century AD |
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Country | Germany |
Part of | Rhineland-Palatinate |
Size of planted vineyards | 233.4 km2 (90.1 sq mi) |
No. of vineyards | 350 |
Comments | 6.5 million hl produced annually |
Palatinate (German: Pfalz) is a German wine-growing region (Weinbaugebiet) in the area of Bad Dürkheim, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before 1993, it was known as Rhine Palatinate (Rheinpfalz). With 23,698 hectares (58,560 acres) under cultivation in 2022, the region is the second largest wine region in Germany after Rheinhessen.[1] There are about 6,800 vintners producing around 2.3 million hectolitres of wine annually.