TERROIR PROFILE
Badische Bergstraße
Sandstone Pinot Noir around Heidelberg
Badische Bergstraße — Weingut Seeger in Leimen is the top address for German Pinot Noir.
TERROIR PROFILE · Baden
Badische Bergstraße Sandstone Pinot Noir around Heidelberg
Badische Bergstraße — Weingut Seeger in Leimen is the top address for German Pinot Noir.
SOILS
Sandstonewarm, dry, spicy
Sandstone warms quickly and yields ripe, fragrant wines with yellow fruit and fine spice.
Loessround, fruity, full
Loess stores water and nutrients. Wines tend to be rounder, juicier and fuller.
Loambody-rich, velvety
Loamy soils give wines volume and a soft, velvety mouthfeel.
CLIMATE · Warm · Dry · Sunny
Mild and sunny, sheltered by Odenwald — similar to Hessische Bergstraße.
TOPOGRAPHY · moderate
Western Odenwald edge, small slope mosaics.
WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS
Similar terroirs worldwide
Computed from fingerprint similarity
Breisgau
Baden
100% similar
- Badische Bergstraße and Breisgau share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Bensheim
Hessische Bergstraße
100% similar
- Badische Bergstraße and Bensheim share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Wineries on this terroir
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