Designation (also Eastern Switzerland) for the regions and areas of Switzerland with a predominantly German-speaking population. These are the Central Plateau, Northwestern Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland and Central Switzerland as well as large parts of the Swiss Alps, which together cover around two thirds of the country's surface area. In terms of wine law, it is one of the six Swiss wine regions with the 17 German-speaking cantons. The wine-growing cantons with vineyards (some with only a few hectares) are Aargau, Basle Country, Bern (Lake Thun), Glarus, Graubünden, Lucerne, Nidwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Zurich.

Their vineyards cover a total of almost 2,600 hectares of vines, ranging from 0.2 hectares in the canton of Nidwalden to 644 hectares in the canton of Zurich. Almost 80% is made up of red wine varieties with the dominant Pinot Noir (here (Blauburgunder, Clevner), as well as the new varieties Gamaret and Garanoir. The most important white wine variety is Müller-Thurgau (Riesling x Sylvaner), others are Räuschling, Gewürztraminer and Pinot Gris.