Schwäbischer Landwein

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The Kocher and Jagst, tributaries of the Neckar, have cut deeply into the Muschelkalk of the Hohenlohe plain, and the stony, fossil-rich soils are most evident on the steep vineyard slopes along the river courses.
• Alongside the Muschelkalk soils flanking the rivers, the rest of the Hohenlohe wine country is shaped by the reddish, nutrient-rich marls of the Keuper formation.
• The Neckar forms the main artery of the Württemberg wine region, offering sun-warmed, shallow, skeleton-rich steep slopes in Muschelkalk, complemented by deep loess soils and soils derived from gypsum Keuper.
• Mean annual precipitation ranges, depending on the sub-zone, from 550 to 650 mm in the Tauber-Jagst-Kocher area to 1,000 to 1,050 mm at Lake Constance, the wettest part of the region.
• A small area around Kressbronn on Lake Constance also belongs to this delimited wine region, which otherwise extends along the Kocher, Jagst, Tauber, and Neckar rivers.

• The increasingly harsh autumn climate in the Kocher-Jagst-Tauber area particularly favours early-ripening white grape varieties, which tend to yield high-acid, light, and firm white wines.
• The terraced steep vineyard sites of the growing region, combined with a climate that allows even late-ripening varieties to reach maturity as well as cooler conditions, are defining characteristics of this regional wine area.

• The varied soils and terraced steep vineyard sites, together with a climate that allows even late-ripening varieties to reach maturity as well as cooler conditions, yield wines whose character is shaped mainly by vintage and grape variety.

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

All appellations in Germany

Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-DE-A1305
• Official trade body site — Weinbauverband Württemberg e.V.