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Mönchberg

Vineyard site

Mönchberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 90.2 ha in Volxheim. It makes up 2.8% of the Großlage Rheingrafenstein. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments. It lies 5.6 km south-east of Bad Kreuznach and 37 km south-west of Wiesbaden.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
90.2 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
1.5 × 1.1 km
Centre
49.8207° N, 7.9378° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Bingen
Großlage
Rheingrafenstein

Where it is

Nearest town
5.6 km south-east of Bad Kreuznach
Nearest city
37 km south-west of Wiesbaden 288,850 people
To the sea
338 km

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

Terrain

Elevation
143–207 m
Mean elevation
171 m
Mean slope
5.5° (10 %)
Steepest tenth
above 11°
Faces
north-west

Measured over the whole outline on 95,415 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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