Since wine grows especially on meager soil which cannot be used by other forms of agriculture, many mostly poor families turned to viniculture. The whole family had to help and with very high taxes and due to the leases (up to 80%) often not much was left to live on.
Thus wine was grown wherever possible and people hoped for St. Urban, the patron saint of the wine farmers who was supposed to help against frost and hail. Viniculture took over to such a capacity that the rulers had to forbid the cultivation of additional grapes at the beginning of the 14th century in order to not endanger the supply of the people with bread, fruits and meat and milk.
In the year 1386 according to the chronics more wine flew than water so that the mortar for building houses partially had to be mixed with wine. That people tried to sufficiently encounter the flood of wine through festivals and celebrations is a matter of course. A number for example: when in the year 1480 the beloved Count Ulrich V died, at his funeral the bereaved from near and far drowned their pain in 64 buckets of red and white wine. Since a bucket then contained 294 liters, this was almost 19,000 liters of wine which "fell prey" to the funeral.
Wine was cultivated on in all 45,000 hectares in Wuerttemberg in 1600 (today its is some 11,000 hectares) and often in the surplus of wine it was "free for whoever wanted it". Wealth creates envy. That wasn't any different in the wine loving Wuerttemberg back then than it is today elsewhere. Numerous feuds and small wars began in the wealth due to the wine.
All of these tiffs were however downright "small stuff" in comparison to the event which almost brought the viniculture to a 100 percent stop: the Thirty Years' War. Shortly before the outbreak of the war, the rulers had implemented a quality consciousness and the first attempts were made to sort out the bad sorts of grapes and to pay more attention to the quality of the wine than to the large yield.
The cultivation of Clevner, Veltliner, Silvaner, Gutedel, Traminer, Muskateller and other sorts began. Later in the 17th century the Trollinger and Riesling were added. Who was there first, the wine or the Romans? It is certain that the Romans brought with them the drink of Bacchus, stored in barrels. In the case of the Stuttgart region however it is probable that wine entered into the country with the Christianization.
Since wine grows especially on meager soil which cannot be used by other forms of agriculture, many mostly poor families turned to viniculture. 
