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AOC Schaffhausen

Appellation

AOC Schaffhausen is an appellation of Deutschschweiz in Switzerland. Regional bedrock: unconsolidated sediments.

Northern canton on the Rhine, known as Blauburgunderland for its Pinot Noir.
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Key facts

Type
Cantonal AOC
Separate plots
3
Extent N–S × E–W
28.27 × 35.34 km
Centre
47.7251° N, 8.5851° E
Wine region
Deutschschweiz

Where it is

Nearest town
around the town of Schaffhausen
Nearest city
19 km west of Singen 47,621 people
To the sea
366 km
Rivers nearby
Rhein (5.2 km) · Danube (22 km)
Same latitude
Rocky Reach (United States)

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

Terrain

Elevation
344–909 m
Mean elevation
537 m

Measured over the whole outline on 28,723 elevation cells of about 103 m (Mapterhorn terrain tiles).

Bedrock

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

Wineries · 12

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