Wine region

Saale-Unstrut

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About Saale-Unstrut

Saale-Unstrut is a region (Anbaugebiet) for quality wine in Germany, and takes its name from the rivers Saale and Unstrut. The region is located on various hill slopes around these rivers. Most of the region's 685 hectares under vine in 2008 is situated in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, with around 20 hectares in the state of Thuringia.

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Saale-Unstrut is a wine region, Germany. We track 2 of its wines in stock at 1 shop, from 0 wine houses, from € 32.00; mostly sparkling.

At a glance
Country
Germany
In our wines
Silvaner, Müller-Thurgau
Styles
Sparkling 2
Prices
from € 32.00 · median € 40.00 / 75 cl

Vintages

per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote
VintageWinesFromMedian / 75 clCritics' scoreGrowing season
2026––––hotso far +1.8 °C · 1,305 GDD · 94 % rain
2025––––hot +1.0 °C · 1,140 GDD · 99 % rain
2024––––hot +1.6 °C · 1,265 GDD · 118 % rain
2023––––hotdry harvest +1.3 °C · 1,288 GDD · 99 % rain
2022––––hot +1.4 °C · 1,303 GDD · 92 % rain
2021––––cool −0.7 °C · 942 GDD · 129 % rain
2020––––warm +0.7 °C · 1,085 GDD · 97 % rain
2019––––hot +1.2 °C · 1,198 GDD · 82 % rain
2018––––hotdry +2.3 °C · 1,420 GDD · 63 % rain
2017––––average +0.3 °C · 1,065 GDD · 115 % rain
2016––––average +0.4 °C · 1,134 GDD · 106 % rain
2015––––average ±0.0 °C · 1,065 GDD · 80 % rain
2014––––warm +0.5 °C · 1,025 GDD · 125 % rain
2013––––cool −0.6 °C · 877 GDD · 105 % rain
2012––––average −0.2 °C · 1,009 GDD · 86 % rain
2011––––average +0.2 °C · 991 GDD · 107 % rain
2010––––coldwetwet harvest −1.2 °C · 831 GDD · 133 % rain
2009––––average ±0.0 °C · 1,008 GDD · 109 % rain
2008––––average −0.4 °C · 962 GDD · 111 % rain
2007––––averagewetwet harvest −0.1 °C · 980 GDD · 132 % rain
2006––––hotdry harvest +1.0 °C · 1,201 GDD · 89 % rain
2005––––average +0.1 °C · 963 GDD · 87 % rain
2004––––average −0.4 °C · 881 GDD · 99 % rain
2003––––average +0.4 °C · 1,226 GDD · 73 % rain
2002––––average −0.2 °C · 1,026 GDD · 113 % rain
2001––––average −0.1 °C · 990 GDD · 97 % rain
2000––––average +0.3 °C · 990 GDD · 79 % rain
1999––––average +0.1 °C · 1,031 GDD · 82 % rain
1998––––averagewet harvest −0.3 °C · 942 GDD · 122 % rain
1997––––cooldry harvest −0.9 °C · 951 GDD · 92 % rain
1996––––cold −1.7 °C · 663 GDD · 112 % rain
1995––––averagewet harvest −0.3 °C · 911 GDD · 129 % rain
1994––––average −0.4 °C · 988 GDD · 113 % rain
1993––––cool −0.6 °C · 863 GDD · 101 % rain
1992––––average −0.2 °C · 1,068 GDD · 91 % rain
1991––––colddrydry harvest −1.2 °C · 864 GDD · 70 % rain
1990––––cool −0.6 °C · 893 GDD · 88 % rain
1989––––average −0.3 °C · 938 GDD · 87 % rain
1988––––cool −0.8 °C · 858 GDD · 76 % rain
1987––––cold −1.8 °C · 654 GDD · 127 % rain
1986––––cold −1.4 °C · 769 GDD · 126 % rain
1985––––cold −1.2 °C · 789 GDD · 88 % rain
1984––––coldwet −2.0 °C · 627 GDD · 132 % rain
1983––––average −0.4 °C · 913 GDD · 122 % rain
1982––––average −0.3 °C · 996 GDD · 79 % rain

Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Saale-Unstrut's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.

Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.