Blue Silvaner, yellow in the glass
In an interview with the VDP, Philipp Luckert says that his is “the only estate that grows all four Silvaner variants: yellow, green, blue and red”.
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Our pick
The vines for the Silvaner Alte Reben are 40 to 65 years old, and each litre is left with 0.8 grams of residual sugar. I would order a case of it straight away.
From the wine letter
In an interview with the VDP, Philipp Luckert says that his is “the only estate that grows all four Silvaner variants: yellow, green, blue and red”. The blue one has berries that range from violet to purple, yet in the glass it is intensely yellow. The house is a Zehnthof, a tithe court built in 1558 that once belonged to the prince-bishop. Theo and Luitgard Luckert bought it in the early 1970s and took twelve years to restore it. They were using the cellar as early as the 1975 vintage.
Today Wolfgang, Ulrich and Philipp Luckert share responsibility for vineyard and cellar. VINUM called the three “real Franconian characters” and in its 2025 wine guide named the Zehnthof Winery of the Year. In the vineyards the Luckerts converted to organic viticulture in 2008. In the cellar they work as they always have: the whites ferment spontaneously and mature in Doppelstück casks of Spessart oak. Of the four variants, this letter features the blue one, along with two other Silvaners and the Pinot Blanc from the terraces in the Sulzfelder Berg. The larger set adds the Roter Silvaner 2025 and the Gelbkalk 2025, a Silvaner from the Erste Lage Sonnenberg, where veins of yellow limestone run through the shell limestone.
P.S. In 2009, in the Creutz site, the Luckerts rescued what is, in their own words, “probably the oldest Sylvaner vineyard in Germany”. Its vines were planted in 1870 and grow on their own roots. With 97 points, VINUM made the Creutz Silvaner wurzelecht 2024 its Silvaner of the Year and found it “crystal clear, salty, of great depth”. Approx. €195.
The wines in this letter
The Blue Silvaner grows on shell limestone around Sulzfeld, ferments spontaneously and matures for nine months in large casks. It smells of herbs and yellow fruit and stays juicy and clear on the palate through to the long finish. With fried carp, now in season in Franken.
18,00 €incl. VAT
For this Ortswein the Luckerts mainly use grapes from young parcels in their Erste Lage and Große Lage vineyards, and they mature it for nine months in large casks. The importer describes it as full of tension. With pan-fried char.
15,51 €incl. VAT
The vines are 40 to 65 years old. The wine ferments spontaneously and spends six months in large casks. The Luckerts note a “dense and multi-layered nose, smoky aromas, pronounced minerality from the shell limestone”. With Schäufele, the Franconian pork shoulder with crackling.
20,00 €incl. VAT
The vines date from the 1960s and grow on historic stone terraces in the Sulzfelder Berg. The wine ferments spontaneously and matures in Doppelstück casks. Land consolidation never touched the terraces, and the switch to organic began when the Luckerts leased them in 2007. With zander on creamed sauerkraut.
28,50 €incl. VAT