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Sonne

Vineyard site

Sonne is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mittelrhein in Germany, covering 29.3 ha in Oberheimbach. It makes up 6.0% of the Großlage Schloß Reichenstein. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 10 km north-west of Bingen am Rhein and 22 km north of Bad Kreuznach.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mittelrhein
Area
29.3 ha
Separate plots
4
Extent N–S × E–W
0.62 × 0.77 km
Centre
50.0293° N, 7.7914° E
Region
Mittelrhein
Bereich
Bereich Loreley
Großlage
Schloß Reichenstein

Where it is

Nearest town
10 km north-west of Bingen am Rhein
Nearest city
22 km north of Bad Kreuznach 43,213 people
To the sea
316 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (1.4 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
107–289 m
Mean elevation
208 m
Mean slope
16.6° (30 %)
Steepest tenth
above 25°
Faces
south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 31,553 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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