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Ritsch

Vineyard site

Ritsch is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 21.5 ha in Thörnich. It makes up 0.9% of the Großlage Sankt Michael. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 6.3 km east of Schweich and 17 km east of Trier.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
21.5 ha
Separate plots
2
Extent N–S × E–W
0.49 × 1.11 km
Centre
49.8391° N, 6.8363° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Bernkastel
Großlage
Sankt Michael

Where it is

Nearest town
6.3 km east of Schweich
Nearest city
17 km east of Trier 100,129 people
To the sea
240 km
Rivers nearby
Mosel (0.5 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
118–265 m
Mean elevation
187 m
Mean slope
29.7° (57 %)
Steepest tenth
above 42°
Faces
south

Measured over the whole outline on 23,013 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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