71% of the vines grown in württemberg are of red grape varieties. the most common variety in württemberg, and the region's signature grape, is the red wine grape trollinger, which was planted on 21.2% of the vineyard surface in 2008. trollinger gives red wines which are light in both colour and style (and occasionally made in a slightly sweet style) and württemberg accounts for over 98% of plantings of trollinger in germany. other common red varieties are schwarzriesling (pinot meunier, which despite its german name is not related to "genuine" riesling) at 15.1%,