Efringen-Kirchen family estate at the southern edge of the Markgraeflerland, known for single-site Gutedel and Spaetburgunder bottlings named for individual vineyard parcels.
Tip: Ziereisen names its wines after specific parcels rather than village Lagen; ask which site is currently pouring.
Address: Markgrafenstrasse 17, 79588 Efringen-Kirchen, Germany, Baden
Bad Krozingen-Schlatt estate on the Breisgau's limestone slopes south of Freiburg, built around Burgunder varieties with Spaetburgunder as the house lead.
Tasting: Cellar-door tastings in Bad Krozingen-Schlatt, on the Breisgau's loess and limestone soils.
Tip: Schlatt sits between the Kaiserstuhl and Markgraeflerland; pair a visit with either neighbouring district.
Durbach estate on the Ortenau's granite and gneiss Plauelrain slope, majority Riesling (locally called Klingelberger) with a 2016 Eiswein that won the AWC Vienna world championship.
Tasting: Three generations work the Durbach estate together; tastings by appointment on the Plauelrain slope.
Tip: Riesling here is sold under the local name Klingelberger; don't expect Kaiserstuhl Burgunder styles.
Offenburg estate held by the von Franckenstein family since the 18th century and farmed today under Stefan Huschle, EU-organic Riesling and Spaetburgunder from Ortenau's granite sites.
Tasting: Tastings at the Offenburg estate, family-owned for more than three centuries and VDP member since 1926.
Tip: Offenburg sits at the Ortenau's northern gateway, a convenient first or last stop on a Black Forest wine route.
Historic Schloss Neuweier estate north of Baden-Baden, owned by Robert Schaetzle since 2012 and majority Riesling from steep granite terraces cooled by evening Black Forest air.
Tasting: Tastings at the Schloss Neuweier grounds north of Baden-Baden, on steep granite slopes at 200-400 metres elevation.
Tip: The Mauerwein bottling from the Mauerberg Grosse Lage is the estate's most site-specific Riesling.
Lahr estate organic-certified since 1991, farming four Grosse Lage sites on the Ortenau's southern edge with Auxerrois, grown there since the 1950s, alongside the core Burgunder range.
Tasting: Tastings at the Lahr estate, certified organic since 1991.
Tip: Ask for the Auxerrois; Woehrle is one of the few Ortenau estates with old-vine plantings of the variety.
Buehl cooperative in the Affental valley at the Ortenau's northern reach, best known outside the region for its distinctive monkey-relief Affenflasche bottle of Spaetburgunder.
Tasting: Cooperative cellar door in Buehl-Eisental, at the Ortenau's northern edge, known for its monkey-embossed "Affenflasche" bottle.
Tip: The Affenflasche bottle shape is a regional collector's item as much as the wine inside it.
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