Pfaffenkappe is a registered vineyard site (Einzellage) of Rheinhessen in Germany, covering 485.2 ha in Schwabsburg. It makes up 13.3% of the Großlage Gutes Domtal. Regional bedrock: mixed sedimentary rocks. It lies 3.6 km west of Nierstein and 13 km south of Mainz.
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Distances from the centre of the place. Towns: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sea, rivers and lakes: Natural Earth.
Measured over the whole outline on 128,638 elevation cells of about 6 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).
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.
Regional bedrock from the GLiM global lithological map (Hartmann and Moosdorf 2012), not a soil survey.
Landwirtschaftskammer Rheinland-Pfalz, Weinbergslagen (dl-de/by-2-0)
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