TERROIR PROFILE
Roter Hang
Permian Rotliegendes — Riesling icon
Roter Hang is one of the world's great Riesling terroirs — Klaus-Peter Keller's G-Max grows here.
TERROIR PROFILE · Rheinhessen
Roter Hang Permian Rotliegendes — Riesling icon
Roter Hang is one of the world's great Riesling terroirs — Klaus-Peter Keller's G-Max grows here.
SOILS
Rotliegendes (red slate)warm, spicy, exotic
Permian Rotliegendes — iron-rich, heat-storing. Yields characterful, spicy Rieslings with unusual depth.
Slatemineral, smoky
Slate stores heat and releases it at night — wines show wet stone, smoke and a delicate structure.
CLIMATE · Warm · Dry · Sunny
Steep slopes directly on the Rhine, southwest-facing. Mild, sunny, climatically buffered by the river.
TOPOGRAPHY · steep
Narrow steep terrace between Nierstein and Nackenheim.
WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS
Similar terroirs worldwide
Computed from fingerprint similarity
Hattenheim/Eltville
Rheingau
96% similar
- Minerality (slightly): Roter Hang is more mineral → salty-stony notes, more tension (10 vs. 9).
Volkacher Mainschleife
Franconia
94% similar
- Minerality (slightly): Roter Hang is more mineral → salty-stony notes, more tension (10 vs. 9).
- Freshness (slightly): Roter Hang has more freshness → crisp acidity, long ageing (8 vs. 7).
Wineries on this terroir
See all 79 →Weingut Groehl
Nierstein
Renown 52/100
Weingut St. Antony
Nierstein
Renown 42/100
Weingut Louis Guntrum
Nierstein
Renown 41/100
Weingut Schätzel
Nierstein
Renown 41/100
Weingut Gunderloch
Nackenheim
Renown 40/100
Weingut Kühling-Gillot
Bodenheim
Renown 35/100
Weingut Julianenhof
Renown 26/100
Weingut Fritz Reichert I.
Nierstein
Renown 25/100
This terroir's soils in the glossary