Upper Moselle

The Upper Moselle (German: Obermosel) is the section of the River Moselle, 45 kilometres long, that runs from the Franco-German-Luxembourg tripoint near Perl to its confluence with the Saar near Konz shortly before Trier.

From the tripoint to its confluence with the Sauer, the Upper Moselle forms the border between the German states of the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate on the one side and Luxembourg on the other.

This stretch of the river known as the Upper Moselle is, however, not the same as the geographical upper reaches of the Moselle, which run from its source near Bussang in the Vosges mountains in Lorraine via Épinal and Nancy roughly as far as Metz.

Ironically, the only wine-growing region of the state of Saarland is not actually on the River Saar, but on the Upper Moselle in the municipality of Perl.

The grape varieties grown on the Upper Moselle include Rivaner/Müller-Thurgau, Kerner, Pinot Blanc (Weißer Burgunder) and Pinot Noir (Blauer Spätburgunder) as well as Elbling, which is typical of the Upper Moselle and which the Romans are supposed to have introduced.