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Carlsfelsen

Vineyard site

Carlsfelsen is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Mosel in Germany, covering 80.8 ha in Palzem. It makes up 5.9% of the Großlage Gipfel. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks. It lies 13 km west of Saarburg and 18 km south-east of Luxembourg.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Mosel
Area
80.8 ha
Separate plots
3
Extent N–S × E–W
1.95 × 1.16 km
Centre
49.5643° N, 6.3771° E
Region
Mosel
Bereich
Bereich Obermosel
Großlage
Gipfel

Where it is

Nearest town
13 km west of Saarburg
Nearest city
18 km south-east of Luxembourg 76,684 people
To the sea
240 km
Rivers nearby
Mosel (2.2 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
141–215 m
Mean elevation
177 m
Mean slope
7.0° (12 %)
Steepest tenth
above 15°
Faces
south-west

Measured over the whole outline on 84,871 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

Wineries · 5

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Sources

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

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