Teran

Appellation

Teran is an appellation in Slovenia across 5 communes. Regional bedrock: carbonate sedimentary rocks.

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Key facts

Type: ZGP (PDO)
Category: Wine
Protected since: 2006-02-17
Area: 76,975 ha registered outline
Extent N–S × E–W: 51.57 × 38.44 km
Centre: 45.8773° N, 13.7572° E
Grapes: Refošk
Max yield: 90 hl/ha

Where it is

Nearest town: 13 km south-east of Gorizia
Nearest city: 25 km north of Trieste 204,338 people
To the sea: 16 km
Same latitude: The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation: 23–1,454 m
Mean elevation: 447 m

Measured over the whole outline on 68,739 elevation cells of about 106 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles). The outline is made of whole communes or districts, so it includes land that is not vineyard.

Bedrock

Carbonate sedimentary rocks (limestone, marl, dolomite)90%
Unconsolidated sediments10%

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

Communes · 5

Komen
Miren-Kostanjevica
Nova Gorica
Sežana
Vipava

Sources

EU register of geographical indications

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