Palatinate (wine region)

Palatinate

Wine region
Years of wine industry	Since 1st century AD
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.