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Altenberg

Vineyard site

Altenberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 51.8 ha in Oberemmel. It makes up 2.9% of the Großlage Scharzberg. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 7 km south-east of Konz and 11 km south of Trier.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
51.8 ha
Separate plots
6
Extent N–S × E–W
1.56 × 1.45 km
Centre
49.6570° N, 6.6478° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Saar
Großlage
Scharzberg

Where it is

Nearest town
7 km south-east of Konz
Nearest city
11 km south of Trier 100,129 people
To the sea
245 km
Rivers nearby
Saar (4.8 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
204–340 m
Mean elevation
278 m
Mean slope
19.0° (34 %)
Steepest tenth
above 27°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 54,789 elevation cells of about 3 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Vintages: Mosel and German Riesling

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Atlas editorial scores: a consensus of widely published vintage reports, not one critic's view. Scores for 2023 and 2024 are early and can change as the wines develop. Scale 1 to 5.

Bedrock

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

Gemarkungen · 1

Neighbours

Sources

Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Weinbergslagen (dl-de/by-2-0)

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