Why it matters
The producer
The winery’s listed foundation year is 1989, while its vineyard history reaches further through the family’s work with Burgundy grapes. Johannes Landerer now brings together the vineyard and cellar decisions, which matters because the estate’s wines move from loess-grown Weißburgunder to Kaiserstuhl Spätburgunder and bottles tied to named sites. The result is a range built around grape and ground, rather than a collection of unrelated labels.
The Landerer family’s long work with Burgundy varieties supplies the estate’s continuity; its modern shape rests with Johannes Landerer. The listed 1989 foundation and the current 25 hectares set the scale of a family producer rather than a single-vineyard project. Within that frame, the wines retain clear grape roles: Pinot Blanc carries the loess bottling, Pinot Noir carries the Kaiserstuhl red, and the named volcanic sites offer further places for the range to become more specific.
Place and vineyards
Where the wines begin
Landerer works in the Kaiserstuhl, the volcanic area of Baden that appears directly on the Kaiserstuhl Spätburgunder label. That regional name locates the Pinot Noir within the estate’s volcanic setting, while Weißburgunder vom Löss narrows the focus to Pinot Blanc grown on loess. The two names provide a useful way into the wines: one begins with a broad regional designation, the other with the soil beneath the vines.
Kirchberg, Eichberg and Henkenberg are the estate’s named vineyard sites, each associated with volcanic-weathering soils. These are not interchangeable names on a label: they identify the ground from which the estate’s vineyard wines can be drawn. Loess is documented separately for Weißburgunder vom Löss, giving that bottle a different physical starting point from the volcanic Kaiserstuhl red.
In the cellar
Vineyards and cellar
Organic certification under DE-ÖKO-022 is a documented estate-wide commitment, made visible on labels from the 2024 vintage onward. In the cellar, the useful distinction is bottle-specific: the Weißburgunder vom Löss has its own documented vinification, while Kaiserstuhl Spätburgunder has separately documented élevage. That keeps the white’s fruit, acidity and texture distinct from the red’s oak, cherry fruit, tannin and spice, instead of treating every Landerer wine as though it were made the same way.
Wines to know
The range in view
The range includes estate wines linked to soil and cellar work, Kaiserstuhl-labelled bottles, and wines from Kirchberg, Eichberg and Henkenberg. Weißburgunder vom Löss is the white reference point: Pinot Blanc grown on loess, with fruit and acidity carrying a textured body toward the finish. Kaiserstuhl Spätburgunder is the red reference point: Pinot Noir from the Kaiserstuhl, where the documented élevage brings oak and spice into a wine shaped around cherry fruit, tannin and length.
The two bottles also clarify the estate’s grape language. Weißburgunder is Pinot Blanc, a white Burgundy variety, and Spätburgunder is Pinot Noir, the red Burgundy variety. For the Swedish-market 2023 Kaiserstuhl Spätburgunder, the composition is entirely Spätburgunder. That makes its red-fruit aroma, tannic grip and oak-derived spice a direct expression of Pinot Noir in this particular regional bottle.
A useful way in
A bottle to begin with
Start with the Kaiserstuhl Spätburgunder. It is Pinot Noir from the Kaiserstuhl, and the Swedish-market 2023 bottling is entirely Spätburgunder, so the grape is not obscured by a blend. Cherry fruit, spice, oak and tannin give it a complete red-wine shape, while its length shows how fruit and élevage continue after the first sip. It also connects the estate’s family history with Burgundy varieties to a named Baden region and a bottle that can be read through both place and grape.