Location and classification
Rauschelay is a single vineyard site in the municipality and cadastral district of Kaub in the wine-growing region Mittelrhein. It belongs to the Großlage Herrenberg and to the Loreley area.
Vineyard area and history
In the official vineyard sites register, Rauschelay is listed under number 320407. In the harvest vintage directory for 2024, 1.6 hectares of planted vineyard area are stated. The vineyard name has been used since 1971 and was created following a land consolidation from 1969 to 1972, which in Kaub comprised eleven hectares.
Cultivation and wines
Rauschelay is farmed as a steep-slope vineyard. Compared with the Kaub site of Blüchertal, the site is described as warm and bright. A Riesling parcel is documented for Rauschelay; in addition, a Kaub Rauschelay Spätburgunder Rosé feinherb is recorded.
