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Falklay

Vineyard site

Falklay is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 39 ha in Burg. It makes up 2.4% of the Großlage Schwarzlay. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 6.2 km north of Traben-Trarbach and 50 km south-west of Koblenz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
39 ha
Separate plots
2
Extent N–S × E–W
1.81 × 0.6 km
Centre
50.0056° N, 7.1277° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Bernkastel
Großlage
Schwarzlay

Where it is

Nearest town
6.2 km north of Traben-Trarbach
Nearest city
50 km south-west of Koblenz 107,319 people
To the sea
244 km
Rivers nearby
Mosel (0.6 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
142–282 m
Mean elevation
193 m
Mean slope
16.5° (30 %)
Steepest tenth
above 28°
Faces
west

Measured over the whole outline on 42,052 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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