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Orbel

Vineyard site

Orbel is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 16.7 ha in Nierstein, Schwabsburg. It makes up 9.7% of the Großlage Auflangen. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies next to Nierstein and 13 km south of Mainz.

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Key facts

Type
Einzellage
Within
Rheinhessen
Area
16.7 ha
Extent N–S × E–W
0.61 × 0.8 km
Centre
49.8668° N, 8.3195° E
Region
Rheinhessen
Bereich
Bereich Nierstein
Großlage
Auflangen

Where it is

Nearest town
next to Nierstein
Nearest city
13 km south of Mainz 222,889 people
To the sea
357 km
Rivers nearby
Rhine (2.5 km)

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

Terrain

Elevation
94–167 m
Mean elevation
121 m
Mean slope
13.7° (24 %)
Steepest tenth
above 26°
Faces
south-east

Measured over the whole outline on 18,362 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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