The wine-growing region is located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany and is named after the river of the same name. There are many preserved reminders of the Romans, who already cultivated wine here. The vineyards cover 4,237 hectares of vines along the river from Hunsrück to its confluence with the Rhine near Bingen. The Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) founded the Rupertsberg monastery near Bingen. The soils consist of quartzite and slate in the lower Nahe, porphyry, melaphyre and coloured sandstone in the middle Nahe and weathered soils, sandstone, loess and loam near Bad Kreuznach.
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Markus J. Eser
Weinakademiker und Herausgeber „Der Weinkalender“