Palatinate (wine region)

Palatinate
Wine region
Years of wine industrySince 1st century AD
CountryGermany
Part ofRhineland-Palatinate
Size of planted vineyards233.4 km2 (90.1 sq mi)
No. of vineyards350
Comments6.5 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.

  1. ^ "German Wine Statistics 23-24" (PDF). 2024-01-12.

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