German Wine Institute honours 50 estate wine bars

04/10/2017

The German Wine Institute (DWI) has honoured 50 wine bars with a new award last year. The winners – from estates in all 13 wine regions - were selected from some 200 entries, by a panel of experts, according to a strict set of criteria.

“With these award-winning bars, we want to show wine-loving consumers where they can taste wine in a stylish atmosphere and with a high quality of service directly at the producer´s, and thus to create additional incentives to visit Germany´s wine regions”, explained DWI managing director Monika Reule at the award ceremony in Ingelheim. Besides an appealing architecture and interior design, the judges therefore also evaluated aspects such as regular opening times, seating arrangements, product presentation, further information on the region, vineyard tours etc. Other criteria included the professional competence and foreign language skills of the employees.

From an architectural point of view, the 50 award-winning wine bars represent the wide spectrum of modern Wine Country Germany, ranging from stylishly renovated buildings – in part heritage-listed -, to spectacular new constructions with impressive views of the vineyards. “The wine trade has invested a great deal in attractive architecture in the past few years,” Reule pointed out. “This will become increasingly important in order to succeed in our highly-competitive wine market.”

All 50 wine bars were presented in a 114-page special issue of the travel magazine, “Abenteuer und Reisen” under the heading “”Wines of Germany”, which was available at newsagent´s across the country. The publication also includes short portraits of all the wine regions and of young, wild winemakers, as well as a brief explanation of the typical aromas and flavours of Germany´s most important grape varieties.

The DWI features its award-winners online under germanwines.de/tourism/outstanding-vinotheks. The estates can also be found on the interactive map on the home page of the DWI website.

Overview of the 50 “Top Wine Bars 2016”:

Ahr	Weinmanufaktur Walporzheim	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Baden	Weingut Weber	Ettenheim
Baden	Weingut Engler	Müllheim
Baden	Weingut Andreas Männle	Durbach
Baden	Weingut & Weinhaus L. Bastian	Endingen am Kaiserstuhl
Franken	Weingut Reiss	Würzburg
Franken	Meier Weinerlebnis	Markt Nordheim
Franken	Weingut Rainer Sauer	Escherndorf
Franken	Weingut Rothe	Nordheim
Franken	Weingut Rudolf Fürst	Bürgstadt
Franken	DIVINO Nordheim Thüngersheim	Nordheim/Main
Franken	Weingut Behringer	Abtswind
Hessische Bergstraße	Bergsträßer Winzer	Heppenheim
Mittelrhein	Weingut Matthias Müller	Spay
Mosel	Weingüter Rolf Gansen/Karl Andries	Ernst
Mosel	WeinKulturgut Longen-Schlöder	Longuich
Mosel	Weingut Ludger Veit	Osann-Monzel
Mosel	Weingut F.-J. Regnery	Klüsserath
Mosel	Rebenhof Riesling-Manufaktur	Ürzig
Mosel	Weingut Leo Fuchs	Pommern
Mosel	Weingut Axel Pauly	Lieser
Nahe	Weingut Emmerich-Koebernik	Waldböckelheim
Nahe	Weingut Tesch	Langenlonsheim
Nahe	Gut Hermannsberg	Niederhausen
Nahe	Weingut Poss	Windesheim
Pfalz	Weingut Ökonomierat Isler	Neustadt an der Weinstraße
Pfalz	Weingut Josef Köhr	Ruppertsberg
Pfalz	Schloss Janson	Bockenheim/Weinstraße
Pfalz	Winzergenossenschaft Herxheim a. Bg.	Herxheim am Berg
Pfalz	Weingut Fritz Walter	Niederhorbach
Pfalz	Klosterhof Weinvertriebs OHG	Zellertal/Zell
Pfalz	Weingut Holz-Weisbrodt	Weisenheim am Berg
Pfalz	Weingut Nicole Graeber	Edenkoben
Pfalz	Weingut Ralph Anton	Kirrweiler
Rheingau	Wein- und Sektgut Barth	Hattenheim
Rheinhessen	Weingüter Willems & Hofmann	Appenheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut Wasem	Ingelheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut Espenhof	Flonheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut & Weinparadies Meyerhof	Flonheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut Wolfgang & René Peth	Flörsheim-Dalsheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut Eppelmann	Stadecken-Elsheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut Pauser	Flonheim
Rheinhessen	Weingut Mirjam Schneider	Mainz
Rheinhessen	Weingut J. Neus	Ingelheim
Saale-Unstrut	Wein- und Sektgut Hubertus Triebe	Zeitz-Würchwitz
Sachsen	Weingut Schuh	Sörnewitz
Württemberg	Weinkonvent Dürrenzimmern	Brackenheim-Dürrenzimmern
Württemberg	Genossenschaftskellerei Heilbronn-Erlenbach-Weinsberg	Heilbronn
Württemberg	Weinkorb Vinothek Weingüter Singer & Bader	Korb
Württemberg	Weingut Bihlmayer	Löwenstein