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Kirchplatte

Vineyard site

Kirchplatte is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 182.2 ha in Nierstein, Schwabsburg. It makes up 18.1% of the Großlage Spiegelberg. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 2.4 km north-west of Nierstein and 12 km south of Mainz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
182.2 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
1.93 × 2.13 km
Centre
49.8767° N, 8.3045° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Nierstein
Großlage
Spiegelberg

Where it is

Nearest town
2.4 km north-west of Nierstein
Nearest city
12 km south of Mainz 222,889 people
To the sea
356 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (3 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
118–182 m
Mean elevation
153 m
Mean slope
3.5° (6 %)
Steepest tenth
above 7°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 192,892 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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