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Rauschelay

Vineyard site

Rauschelay is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mittelrhein in Germany, covering 4.5 ha in Kaub. It makes up 6.2% of the Großlage Herrenberg. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 17 km north-west of Bingen am Rhein and 34 km west of Wiesbaden.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mittelrhein
Area
4.5 ha
Separate plots
2
Extent N–S × E–W
1.39 × 1.09 km
Centre
50.0903° N, 7.7620° E
Region
Mittelrhein
Bereich
Bereich Loreley
Großlage
Herrenberg

Where it is

Nearest town
17 km north-west of Bingen am Rhein
Nearest city
34 km west of Wiesbaden 288,850 people
To the sea
310 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (0.6 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
84–212 m
Mean elevation
137 m
Mean slope
33.0° (65 %)
Steepest tenth
above 44°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 5,168 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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