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Leiterchen

Vineyard site

Leiterchen is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 70.4 ha in Nittel. It makes up 5.1% of the Großlage Gipfel. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 2.1 km south of Grevenmacher and 18 km south-west of Trier.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
70.4 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
0.97 × 1.73 km
Centre
49.6592° N, 6.4460° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Obermosel
Großlage
Gipfel

Where it is

Nearest town
2.1 km south of Grevenmacher
Nearest city
18 km south-west of Trier 100,129 people
To the sea
235 km
Rivers nearby
Mosel (2.2 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
137–309 m
Mean elevation
209 m
Mean slope
15.9° (28 %)
Steepest tenth
above 29°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 73,849 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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