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Heßern

Vineyard site

Heßern is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mittelrhein in Germany, covering 3.1 ha in St.Goarshausen. It makes up 1.6% of the Großlage Loreleyfelsen. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 12 km south-east of Boppard and 24 km south of Koblenz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mittelrhein
Area
3.1 ha
Separate plots
2
Extent N–S × E–W
0.2 × 0.37 km
Centre
50.1553° N, 7.7184° E
Region
Mittelrhein
Bereich
Bereich Loreley
Großlage
Loreleyfelsen

Where it is

Nearest town
12 km south-east of Boppard
Nearest city
24 km south of Koblenz 107,319 people
To the sea
304 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (0.2 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
84–214 m
Mean elevation
143 m
Mean slope
36.7° (75 %)
Steepest tenth
above 47°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 3,422 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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