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.
Address: Buettnergasse 11, 97355 Wiesenbronn, Germany, Franken
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Naturland-certified organic estate in Escherndorf, farming the Lump and neighbouring Muschelkalk slopes with Silvaner past 60 percent of plantings.
Tip: The Escherndorfer Lump Silvaner trocken is the estate's clearest expression of the Naturland conversion.
