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Alsace Côte de Rouffach

Sub-zone

Alsace Côte de Rouffach is a named sub-zone of Alsace in France, covering 281.7 ha in Pfaffenheim, Rouffach and Westhalten. That is 1.4% of the Alsace appellation area. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 6.8 km north-east of Guebwiller and 16 km south-west of Colmar.

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Key facts

Type
Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within
Alsace
Category
Vin tranquille
Area
281.7 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
4.61 × 2.36 km
Centre
47.9508° N, 7.2758° E

Where it is

Nearest town
6.8 km north-east of Guebwiller
Nearest city
16 km south-west of Colmar 65,405 people
To the sea
408 km

Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.

Terrain

Elevation
204–363 m
Mean elevation
275 m
Mean slope
8.8° (15 %)
Steepest tenth
above 14°
Faces
south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 18,275 elevation cells of about 13 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Communes · 3

Sources

INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (Licence Ouverte 2.0)

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