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VINUM Winery of the Year 2025, and of all places a Franconian one. Weingut Zehnthof Luckert in Sulzfeld shows what happens when 155-year-old vines meet state-of-the-art cellar technology. Wolfgang and Ulrich Luckert cultivate all four Silvaner variants, green, yellow, red and blue, as the only estate in the world to do so. In the prince-bishop's Zehnthof of 1558 they make wines that redefine Franken. Naturland-certified and uncompromisingly individual.
„shell limestone“
In all wines: 116 Wines
More about Luckert - Zehnthof
The Silvaner colour palette of the world
Green, yellow, red, blue: it sounds like a children's paintbox, yet it is the Luckerts' Silvaner collection, unique in the world. They are the only estate anywhere to cultivate all four natural colour variants of Silvaner. These genetic variants of one and the same grape produce entirely different flavour profiles: Blue Silvaner tastes spicier, the red develops more phenolics, the yellow shows elegant acidity. Wolfgang and Ulrich Luckert have collected and propagated these rarities over decades, an ampelographic sensation in the wine world.
155 years in one bottle
In the Creutz vineyard grow Silvaner vines planted as early as 1870, own-rooted and ungrafted. These living fossils of wine culture have survived both world wars, the phylloxera catastrophe and climate change. Their Creutz Silvaner wurzelecht 2024 comes from one of the oldest Silvaner plots in Germany and shows a complexity that only 155-year-old vines can develop. The tiny yields concentrate into wines of mineral depth that taste of Muschelkalk and roasted hazelnuts.
VDP top sites on the Main
The VDP.Grosse Lage Maustal is a steep south-facing slope right on the Main, where the Luckerts produce their Maustal Silvaner Großes Gewächs 2024. They have been VDP members since 1955, which makes them one of the founding estates of Germany's top classification, a tradition that colleagues such as Weingut Peter Jakob Kühn in the Rheingau continue with similar passion for Germany's finest grape varieties. Naturland certification for more than 10 years joins organic farming with VDP standards.
Spontaneous fermentation in the Zehnthof
Cellar master Philipp Luckert, trained under Paul Fürst in Bürgstadt, relies consistently on spontaneous fermentation with natural yeasts. The wines age unfiltered and with minimal sulphur in traditional Doppelstück casks of Spessart oak. The Sulzfelder Silvaner Alte Reben 2024 is a fine example of this philosophy: vines 20 to 80 years old, spontaneously fermented, ten months on the full lees. The result is wines of uncompromising originality, which have justified the Eichelmann 5-star status without interruption since 2016.