Netherlands · BOB (PDO)

Vijlen

Appellation

Vijlen is an appellation in the Netherlands in Vaals. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments. It lies 4.9 km north-east of Plombières and 7 km west of Aachen.

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Key facts

Type: BOB (PDO)
Category: Quality Sparkling Wine/Sparkling Wine/Wine
Protected since: 2018-11-12
Area: 2,378 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 5.6 × 7.54 km
Centre: 50.7788° N, 5.9788° E
Other grapes: Baron, Cabernet Blanc, Cabernet Cortis, Chardonnay, Johanniter, Monarch, Muscaris, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Pinotin, Solaris, Souvignier Gris
Max yield: 55 hl/ha

Where it is

Nearest town: 4.9 km north-east of Plombières
Nearest city: 7 km west of Aachen 265,208 people
To the sea: 129 km
Same latitude: Shuswap (Canada)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 112–324 m
Mean elevation: 201 m
Mean slope: 5.5° (10 %)
Steepest tenth: above 11°
Faces: north

Measured over the whole outline on 163,546 elevation cells of about 12 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Unconsolidated sediments64%
Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)36%

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

Communes · 1

Vaals

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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