TERROIR PROFILE
Ortenau
Granite Klingelberger heartland
Ortenau — Andreas Laible, Schloss Staufenberg. Klingelberger is the local Riesling name.
TERROIR PROFILE · Baden
Ortenau Granite Klingelberger heartland
Ortenau — Andreas Laible, Schloss Staufenberg. Klingelberger is the local Riesling name.
SOILS
Graniteelegant, lightly spicy
Weathered granite produces elegant, slender wines with fine, lightly spicy profile.
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.
Marlbalanced, structured
Marl is a mix of limestone and clay — yields structured, balanced wines with acidity backbone.
CLIMATE · Warm · Dry · Sunny
Mild, sunny, sheltered by the Black Forest.
TOPOGRAPHY · steep
Steep weathered-granite slopes between Baden-Baden and Offenburg.
WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS
Similar terroirs worldwide
Computed from fingerprint similarity
Bingen/Ingelheim
Rheinhessen
100% similar
- Ortenau and Bingen/Ingelheim share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.
Alzey-Land
Rheinhessen
96% similar
- Sun (slightly): Ortenau gets more sun → deeper colour, riper tannin (8 vs. 7).
Wineries on this terroir
See all 56 →Weingut Andreas Laible
Durbach
Renown 55/100
Weingut Wöhrle
Lahr
Renown 50/100
PIEPER BASLER
Offenburg
Renown 24/100
Weingut Freiherr Roeder von Diersburg
Hohberg-Diersburg
Renown 22/100
Weingut Heinrich Männle
Durbach
Renown 20/100
Weingut Andreas Männle
Durbach
Renown 19/100
Winzergenossenschaft Waldulm / Baden e.G.
Waldulm
Renown 19/100
Familien-Weingut Renner
Fessenbach
Renown 19/100
This terroir's soils in the glossary