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Rotenfels

Vineyard site

Rotenfels is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Nahe in Germany, covering 29.7 ha in Traisen. It makes up 2.8% of the Großlage Burgweg. Regional bedrock: acid volcanic rocks. It lies 4.5 km south-west of Bad Kreuznach and 43 km south-west of Wiesbaden.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Nahe
Area
29.7 ha
Separate plots
2
Extent N–S × E–W
1.24 × 1.54 km
Centre
49.8176° N, 7.8162° E
Region
Nahe
Bereich
Bereich Nahetal
Großlage
Burgweg

Where it is

Nearest town
4.5 km south-west of Bad Kreuznach
Nearest city
43 km south-west of Wiesbaden 288,850 people
To the sea
332 km
Rivers nearby
Glan (0.2 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
119–244 m
Mean elevation
184 m
Mean slope
15.4° (28 %)
Steepest tenth
above 27°
Faces
south

Measured over the whole outline on 32,002 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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