Sonnenuhr

Vineyard site

Sonnenuhr is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 46.8 ha in Wehlen. It makes up 7.3% of the Großlage Münzlay. Regional bedrock: siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. It lies 3.9 km north of Bernkastel-Kues and 36 km north-east of Trier.

Wehlener Sonnenuhr: steep slate slope across the Mosel from Wehlen, named after the sundial painted on a rock among the vines. One of the most famous Riesling sites in the world.

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Key facts

Type: Einzellage
Within: Mosel
Area: 46.8 ha
Extent N–S × E–W: 0.96 × 1.43 km
Centre: 49.9455° N, 7.0470° E
Region: Mosel
Bereich: Bereich Bernkastel
Großlage: Münzlay

Where it is

Nearest town: 3.9 km north of Bernkastel-Kues
Nearest city: 36 km north-east of Trier 100,129 people
To the sea: 243 km
Rivers nearby: Mosel (0.9 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 108–272 m
Mean elevation: 178 m
Mean slope: 24.2° (45 %)
Steepest tenth: above 32°
Faces: south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 49,938 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

Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks (sandstone, shale)98%

Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.

Gemarkungen · 1

Wehlen

Neighbours

Sources

Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Weinbergslagen (dl-de/by-2-0)

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