France · Dénomination géographique complémentaire

Alsace Val Saint Grégoire

Sub-zone

Alsace Val Saint Grégoire is a named sub-zone of Alsace in France, covering 143.5 ha across 4 communes. That is 0.7% of the Alsace appellation area. The rules allow red, rosé and white wine. Regional bedrock: acid plutonic rocks. It lies 7.2 km west of Wintzenheim and 12 km west of Colmar.

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Key facts

Type: Dénomination géographique complémentaire
Within: Alsace
Category: Vin de sélection de grains nobles, Vin de vendanges tardives, Vin tranquille
Area: 143.5 ha
Separate plots: 12
Extent N–S × E–W: 4.46 × 5.8 km
Centre: 48.0523° N, 7.1988° E

Where it is

Nearest town: 7.2 km west of Wintzenheim
Nearest city: 12 km west of Colmar 65,405 people
To the sea: 420 km

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

Terrain

Elevation: 246–462 m
Mean elevation: 344 m
Mean slope: 15.4° (28 %)
Steepest tenth: above 21°
Faces: south

Measured over the whole outline on 9,348 elevation cells of about 13 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

Acid plutonic rocks (granite)62%
Metamorphic rocks (schist, slate, gneiss)38%

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

Communes · 4

Turckheim
Walbach
Wihr-Au-Val
Zimmerbach

Sources

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

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