Baden

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The vineyard sites lie at elevations ranging from approximately 115 m to 520 m above sea level, with slope gradients of up to 60 % in sites worked by tractor direct-pull.
• Along the Upper Rhine, on the Tuniberg, and in the Kaiserstuhl, the vineyard sites lie predominantly on terraces of varying size.
• The soils formed mainly from the weathering of granite, gneiss, Muschelkalk, or volcanic rock and are largely covered by loess deposits of varying depth.
• The Freiburg im Breisgau site records a mean annual temperature of 10.8 °C, an annual precipitation of 955 l/m², and 1,740 hours of sunshine per year.
• Baden is the only German wine-growing region assigned to Wine-Growing Zone B of the European Union, as are the neighbouring French regions of Alsace, Champagne, and the Loire Valley. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Viticulture in the Baden wine-growing region is documented by written records as far back as 720 AD and has profoundly shaped the culture and landscape of the region over many centuries.
• The historically entrenched practice of equal inheritance (Realteilung) has widely resulted in small and very small-scale vineyard structures on hillside and steep sites, and owing to the limited scope for mechanisation, the viticultural management of these vineyards is in some cases highly labour-intensive.

• The wines of Baden are described as terroir-driven, fruity, mineral white wines as well as structured, full-bodied red wines with variety-specific aromatic expression.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-DE-A1264
• Official trade body site — Badischer Weinbauverband e.V.