WINEMAKER
Bernhard Huber
Established in 1987 in Malterdingen, Baden
Based in Malterdingen, in Baden, the estate sits in a place with a long Pinot history: Cistercian monks brought the variety here more than 700 years ago, and the local term “Malterdinger” was once used almost synonymously with Pinot Noir. On these limestone-rich slopes at the edge of the Black Forest, Bernhard Huber built one of Germany’s most important red wine estates — precise, ambitious, and deeply inspired by Burgundy, but never trying to copy it.
Today, the domaine is run by Julian Huber together with his mother Barbara, following Bernhard’s passing in 2014. Julian has not simply protected the family legacy; he has sharpened it. The wines feel more focused, more transparent, and more quietly confident with every vintage — Pinot Noir remains the heart of the estate, but the Chardonnays and white Pinots have become just as impossible to ignore.
What makes Huber so compelling is the balance between power and restraint. These are serious wines, often from great sites like Bienenberg, Schlossberg, and Sommerhalde, but they are never heavy-handed. There is limestone tension, fine oak, depth without excess, and that unmistakable Malterdingen signature: dark-fruited Pinot with structure, elegance, and a kind of cool inner energy.
The result is one of Germany’s benchmark estates — not “German Burgundy”, but something more interesting: Baden Pinot and Chardonnay with identity, history, and Julian Huber’s increasingly precise hand behind them. A domaine that proves, vintage after vintage, that Malterdingen belongs in the same conversation as the great Pinot from Burgundy.
