Green valley of vineyards, meadows and woodland with a farmstead in the middle distance and hills on the horizon

Malterdingen, BadenGermanyOrganic Wine

Weingut Bernhard Huber

Silver Tier

Last verified · September 2026

The Free Bacchus Story

More than 700 years ago Cistercian monks brought vines from Burgundy to Malterdingen, in Baden, because they found the same shell-limestone soil there. Their farm, the curia, stood where the Huber estate stands now. The grape they planted, Pinot Noir, became so rooted in the village that old ampelographies list Malterdinger among its names.

Spätburgunder is the German name for Pinot Noir, and it makes up 70 per cent of the Hubers’ vineyards, with Chardonnay next at 15. Bernhard Huber built the estate into one of the best-known names in German Pinot Noir, and from the 1988 vintage he bottled every wine unfiltered. He died in June 2014 after a long illness. His son Julian had already taken charge of the vineyards and cellar while he was still studying oenology.

A woman and a bearded young man holding glasses of red wine among stacked barriques branded Huber at Weingut Bernhard Huber

Julian’s changes show from the 2012 vintage: new vineyards planted very densely, with only Burgundian clones, picked selectively by hand, and the best Spätburgunder fermented in open vats. Barbara and Julian Huber own and run it now, and it is certified organic. The EU register lists Weingut Bernhard Huber, in their names, for its grapes and its wine.

“Less is more. We want to concentrate on the essential and the given.”

Julian HuberProprietor and winemaker, on his approach, 2026 · VDP

Why it’s remarkable

700 years

of Pinot Noir in Malterdingen

Cistercian monks planted Burgundy vines here on the same shell limestone they knew at home, on the ground where the estate now stands.

1988

the first vintage bottled unfiltered

Bernhard Huber let his wines ferment slowly and fully, rest long on their lees, and go into bottle unfiltered, from 1988 on.

70%

of the vineyards are Spätburgunder

The estate is built around Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on shell limestone, the Burgundian pairing the monks started.

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Free Bacchus Verification

Track A

Formal third-party certification, confirmed against the issuing body’s own register.

EU organic (DE-ÖKO-022)

Certified1

EU organic, DE-ÖKO-022: DE-ÖKO-022.276-0039928.2026.001, grapes and wine

Re-verified annually against the issuing body’s register. How re-verification works

The producer’s own siteweingut-huber.com

Producers don’t pay to be here. There is no fee to be listed and no way to buy a higher tier. If the evidence doesn’t hold, the bottle isn’t here.

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