Weingut Roth ★ 4.1
Naturland-certified Steigerwald estate in Wiesenbronn, working the gypsum keuper slopes below Schwanberg.
Tip: Wiesenbronn sits just below the Schwanberg learning trails, easy to combine with a vineyard walk.
ClassificationVDP.Weingut
VarietalsSilvaner, Grauburgunder, Weissburgunder, Spaetburgunder, Chardonnay, Riesling
Hectares17.0 ha
OwnerMay family (Petra, Rudolf and Benedikt May)
OrganicNATURLAND CERTIFIED
NeighbourhoodRetzstadt
Tip: The entry-tier Gutswein Silvaner is a fair, affordable preview of the estate's mineral house style.
Location
Address: Im Eberstal 1, 97282 Retzstadt, Germany, Franken
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Weingut Hoefler ★ 4.0
Certified organic estate in Alzenau-Michelbach at the Mainviereck's western edge, the region's furthest-west organic producer toward the Spessart.
Tip: The furthest-west stop on a Franken organic tour, easy to combine with a Spessart or Miltenberg day trip.
Oeko-Weingut Zang ★ 4.2
Naturland-certified organic since 1990, one of the Main loop's earliest conversions, built around old Silvaner clone selections in Nordheim.
Tip: Ask for the Gegenstrom Silvaner, the estate's flagship old-clone bottling.
Weingut Schloss Hallburg ★ 4.4
Bioland-certified since July 2018, the Graf von Schoenborn family's Hallburg estate farms 35 hectares organically above the Main loop from a former Celtic refuge fortress.
Tip: Combine the tasting room's April-October hours with the estate's own vineyard-view terrace.
Weingut Baeuerlein ★ 3.9
Nineteenth-century Nordheim family estate that converted to Bioland certification in 2020, a small, mostly word-of-mouth cellar door.
Tip: Call ahead; this small family cellar does not keep fixed public tasting hours.
Weingut am Stein (Ludwig Knoll) ★ 4.6
Wuerzburg's respekt-BIODYN and Naturland-certified estate on the Wuerzburger Stein, farming biodynamically among the city's steepest historic vineyard slopes.
Tip: The estate's guest house and Vinothek make it the easiest biodynamic tasting to combine with a Stein-Wein-Pfad walk.