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Hohberg

Vineyard site

Hohberg is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 56.7 ha in Lörzweiler. It makes up 4.5% of the Großlage Sankt Alban. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 4.5 km north of Nierstein and 9 km south of Mainz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
56.7 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
0.97 × 1.01 km
Centre
49.9044° N, 8.3026° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Nierstein
Großlage
Sankt Alban

Where it is

Nearest town
4.5 km north of Nierstein
Nearest city
9 km south of Mainz 222,889 people
To the sea
354 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (3.1 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
148–186 m
Mean elevation
169 m
Mean slope
4.1° (7 %)
Steepest tenth
above 6°
Faces
several directions, mostly south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 60,492 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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