TERROIR PROFILE

Breisgau

Black Forest foreland · Pinot varieties

Breisgau — home of Bernhard Huber in Malterdingen, one of Germany's top Pinot Noir estates.

WarmthSunDrynessMineralityBodyFreshness

TERROIR PROFILE · Baden

Breisgau Black Forest foreland · Pinot varieties

Breisgau — home of Bernhard Huber in Malterdingen, one of Germany's top Pinot Noir estates.

Warm · Dry · SunnySlope: moderateSpätburgunderMüller-ThurgauWeißburgunder
What is terroir?

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

fine-elegant Pinot Noirslim and mineralGlottertal specialtyclassic Pinot

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.

Heppenheim

Hessische Bergstraße

100% similar

  • Breisgau and Heppenheim share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.

This terroir's soils in the glossary