TERROIR PROFILE

Stuttgart

Urban wine culture — vineyards in the city

Stuttgart is one of the few major cities with vineyards in the urban core.

WarmthSunDrynessMineralityBodyFreshness

TERROIR PROFILE · Württemberg

Stuttgart Urban wine culture — vineyards in the city

Stuttgart is one of the few major cities with vineyards in the urban core.

Cool continentalSlope: steepTrollingerRieslingLemberger
What is terroir?

SOILS

Keuper marlpowerful, iron-red

Keuper marl with high iron content gives Lemberger and Pinot Noir powerful, spicy depth.

Muschelkalk limestoneprecise, salty-mineral

Muschelkalk yields a crisp mineral acidity and salty depth.

Slatemineral, smoky

Slate stores heat and releases it at night — wines show wet stone, smoke and a delicate structure.

CLIMATE · Cool continental

Urban climate slightly warmer, southern steep-slope exposure.

TOPOGRAPHY · steep

Steep slopes in central Stuttgart — Mönchberg, Kriegsberg, Württemberg.

WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GLASS

urban wineTrollinger classicdry Rieslingsteep-slope style

Similar terroirs worldwide

Computed from fingerprint similarity

Bottwartal

Württemberg

100% similar

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

Untere Ahr (Bad Neuenahr–Heimersheim)

Ahr

100% similar

  • Stuttgart and Untere Ahr (Bad Neuenahr–Heimersheim) share a strikingly similar fingerprint — the differences lie in soil and grape varieties.

Heilbronner Land

Württemberg

96% similar

  • Body (slightly): Stuttgart gives less body → finer, lighter wines (6 vs. 7).

This terroir's soils in the glossary