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AOC Vaud

Appellation

AOC Vaud is an appellation of Vaud in Switzerland. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments.

Chasselas country on the shores of Lake Geneva. The terraces of Lavaux are a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2007, with Dézaley and Calamin as grand cru appellations. Also La Côte and Chablais.
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Key facts

Type
Cantonal AOC
Extent N–S × E–W
88.43 × 90.63 km
Centre
46.5616° N, 6.5175° E
Wine region
Vaud

Where it is

Nearest town
5.9 km north-west of Renens
Nearest city
10 km north-west of Lausanne 139,111 people
To the sea
318 km
Rivers nearby
Rhne (12 km)
Lakes nearby
Geneva (4.8 km) · Neuchâtel (28 km)
Same latitude
White Bluffs (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation
372–3,120 m
Mean elevation
842 m

Measured over the whole outline on 73,496 elevation cells of about 210 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

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

Wineries · 54

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