TERROIR PROFILE
Mittelhaardt
Warm climate Riesling + Pinot zone
Mittelhaardt means ripe, dry Rieslings with yellow fruit, substance and strong vineyard character.
Climate, site & wine
Small-scale soil changes set the sites apart: in Forst, Jesuitengarten and Kirchenstück consist of sandstone gravel, sandy loam and basalt, with limestone gravel added at Kirchenstück. This makes Riesling spicy and mineral, in the warm sites with ripe yellow fruit and substance.
Warmth and the shelter of the mountains also let Weissburgunder, Grauburgunder and Spätburgunder ripen fully. The wines are mostly dry, powerful and fairly moderate in acidity.
TERROIR PROFILE · Palatinate
Mittelhaardt Warm climate Riesling + Pinot zone
Mittelhaardt means ripe, dry Rieslings with yellow fruit, substance and strong vineyard character.
SOILS
Sandstonewarm, dry, spicy
Sandstone warms quickly and yields ripe, fragrant wines with yellow fruit and fine spice.
Limestoneprecise, mineral
Limestone delivers tension, structure and a cooler, more mineral character.
Loambody-rich, velvety
Loamy soils give wines volume and a soft, velvety mouthfeel.
Basaltdark, spicy, powerful
Basalt yields darker, spicier, more powerful wines — often with smoky accents.
CLIMATE · Warm · Dry · Sunny
Warm and dry: the Palatinate Forest (Haardt) to the west holds back much of the Atlantic rain, while the Rhine plain opens to the east. Almonds and figs ripen around Deidesheim, and the growing season is long.
TOPOGRAPHY · moderate
Gentle to moderate slopes at the eastern foot of the Haardt, running out into the Rhine plain. Vineyards stretch between Neustadt in the south and Bad Dürkheim in the north; Forst, Deidesheim and Wachenheim lie at the foot of the slope.
WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS
Similar terroirs worldwide
Computed from fingerprint similarity
Bingen/Ingelheim
Rheinhessen
100% similar
- Mittelhaardt and Bingen/Ingelheim share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Bourgogne · Mâconnais
Burgundy
100% similar
- Mittelhaardt and Bourgogne · Mâconnais share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Wineries on this terroir
See all 187 →Weingut Müller-Catoir
Neustadt-Haardt
Renown 63/100
Weingut Dr. Bürklin-Wolf
Wachenheim an der Weinstraße
Renown 55/100
Weingut Reichsrat von Buhl
Deidesheim
Renown 53/100
Weingut A. Christmann
Neustadt-Gimmeldingen
Renown 53/100
Weingut von Winning
Deidesheim
Renown 51/100
Weingut Fitz-Ritter
Bad Dürkheim
Renown 43/100
Weingut Geheimer Rat Dr. von Bassermann-Jordan
Deidesheim
Renown 41/100
Weingut Georg Mosbacher
Forst an der Weinstraße
Renown 38/100
This terroir's soils in the glossary