Württemberg
Warm continental
A red-wine stronghold around Stuttgart, making light Trollinger, Lemberger and Schwarzriesling, mostly drunk locally.
Overview
About Württemberg
Württemberg is one of Germany's larger wine regions, along the Neckar valley around Stuttgart. Unusually for Germany, more than half of its wine is red: Trollinger, Lemberger (Blaufränkisch), Schwarzriesling (Pinot Meunier) and Spätburgunder are the main grapes, alongside Riesling.
Most of it is drunk locally, and comparatively little is exported. It is also where Kerner was bred in 1929.
Württemberg is marked on the map.
Germany
Shaded: Baden-Württemberg. Map units are states, provinces or départements, so a smaller place appears as the larger area that contains it.
The land
Climate & terroir
Climate
Warm continental
Warmer than most of Germany, with mild springs and warm summers, and sheltered valleys.
Terroir & soils
What the vines grow in
Keuper marl and shell limestone, with gypsum and sandstone in places, on the slopes above the Neckar.
Go deeper
Rules, years & producers
Aldinger
Fellbach; a leading estate for Lemberger, Riesling and Spätburgunder.
Graf Neipperg
Schwaigern; a historic estate with a range of reds.
Rainer Schnaitmann
Fellbach; a modern quality grower.
Drautz-Able
Heilbronn; a family estate for Riesling and Lemberger.
What's grown here
Grapes
Each grape's page links back here.
Blaufränkisch
Lemberger, a dark, peppery red from Württemberg.
Kerner
Fresh, fruity whites, and the grape's birthplace in Württemberg.
Pinot Meunier
Made into light, fruity still reds and sparkling wines.
Trollinger
About a sixth of Württemberg's vineyards, for light, fruity reds drunk young.