TERROIR PROFILE
Saar
Cool-climate Riesling on Devonian slate
Saar means the world's most delicate, acid-driven Rieslings — Egon Müller's home, uncompromising elegance.
Climate, site & wine
Blue Devonian slate, into which roots penetrate deeply, stores scarce warmth and gives Riesling a clear, mineral fruit profile. Late ripening preserves high acidity at moderate alcohol.
Typical are slender, filigree Rieslings with citrus and stone-fruit notes and taut, nervy acidity, whether dry, off-dry or noble-sweet. Riesling makes up around 80 per cent of the vineyard area.
TERROIR PROFILE · Mosel
Saar Cool-climate Riesling on Devonian slate
Saar means the world's most delicate, acid-driven Rieslings — Egon Müller's home, uncompromising elegance.
SOILS
Slatemineral, smoky
Slate stores heat and releases it at night — wines show wet stone, smoke and a delicate structure.
CLIMATE · Cool continental
Cooler and more continental than the Mosel: Saar sites lie 50 to 100 metres higher and closer to the Eifel and Hunsrück. Riesling often ripens only in November and so stays slender and high in acidity; in weak years ripeness falls short.
TOPOGRAPHY · steep
Steep slate slopes above the narrow Saar valley, with gradients of up to 80 per cent. Vineyards concentrate around villages such as Serrig, Saarburg, Ockfen, Ayl, Wiltingen, Kanzem and Wawern.
WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS
Similar terroirs worldwide
Computed from fingerprint similarity
Ruwer
Mosel
96% similar
- Freshness (slightly): Saar has more freshness → crisp acidity, long ageing (10 vs. 9).
Untermosel
Mosel
96% similar
- Freshness (slightly): Saar has more freshness → crisp acidity, long ageing (10 vs. 9).
Wineries on this terroir
See all 62 →Weingut Egon Müller-Scharzhof
Wiltingen
Renown 82/100
Weingut von Hövel
Konz-Oberemmel
Renown 68/100
Weingut Forstmeister Geltz Zilliken
Saarburg
Renown 66/100
Weingut Van Volxem
Wiltingen
Renown 61/100
Weingut St. Urbans-Hof (Nik Weis)
Leiwen
Renown 54/100
Weingut Würtzberg
Serrig
Renown 32/100
Weingut Johann Peter Mertes
Kanzem
Renown 19/100
Weingut Michael Frank
Konz
Renown 16/100
This terroir's soils in the glossary