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Sonnenberg

Vineyard site

Sonnenberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 138.1 ha in Irsch. It makes up 7.7% of the Großlage Scharzberg. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 4.2 km east of Saarburg and 16 km south of Trier.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
138.1 ha
Separate plots
7
Extent N–S × E–W
3.15 × 2.93 km
Centre
49.6137° N, 6.6012° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Saar
Großlage
Scharzberg

Where it is

Nearest town
4.2 km east of Saarburg
Nearest city
16 km south of Trier 100,129 people
To the sea
247 km
Rivers nearby
Saar (3.1 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
163–381 m
Mean elevation
246 m
Mean slope
15.2° (27 %)
Steepest tenth
above 26°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 146,185 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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