TERROIR PROFILE
Breisgau
Black Forest foreland · Pinot varieties
Breisgau — home of Bernhard Huber in Malterdingen, one of Germany's top Pinot Noir estates.
TERROIR PROFILE · Baden
Breisgau Black Forest foreland · Pinot varieties
Breisgau — home of Bernhard Huber in Malterdingen, one of Germany's top Pinot Noir estates.
SOILS
Sandstonewarm, dry, spicy
Sandstone warms quickly and yields ripe, fragrant wines with yellow fruit and fine spice.
Loambody-rich, velvety
Loamy soils give wines volume and a soft, velvety mouthfeel.
Loessround, fruity, full
Loess stores water and nutrients. Wines tend to be rounder, juicier and fuller.
Graniteelegant, lightly spicy
Weathered granite produces elegant, slender wines with fine, lightly spicy profile.
CLIMATE · Warm · Dry · Sunny
Mild, sunny, sheltered by the Black Forest.
TOPOGRAPHY · moderate
Transition from Black Forest to Rhine plain.
WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS
Similar terroirs worldwide
Computed from fingerprint similarity
Badische Bergstraße
Baden
100% similar
- Breisgau and Badische Bergstraße share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Bensheim
Hessische Bergstraße
100% similar
- Breisgau and Bensheim share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Wineries on this terroir
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