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Altenberg

Vineyard site

Altenberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 46.9 ha in Krettnach. It makes up 2.6% of the Großlage Scharzberg. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 8.2 km south of Trier and 27 km north of Merzig.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
46.9 ha
Separate plots
5
Extent N–S × E–W
0.99 × 1.26 km
Centre
49.6822° N, 6.6514° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Saar
Großlage
Scharzberg

Where it is

Nearest town
8.2 km south of Trier
Nearest city
27 km north of Merzig 31,118 people
To the sea
243 km
Rivers nearby
Mosel (4.9 km) · Saar (5.3 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
238–381 m
Mean elevation
291 m
Mean slope
12.2° (22 %)
Steepest tenth
above 18°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 49,627 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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