Wine & Spirits of Germany

Kreuzberg / Online

Voo Store is a Kreuzberg concept space that filters Berlin through local and international fashion, modern design and visual culture. The Oranienstraße complex also includes Voo Deli for natural wine and food, Voo Space for gallery collaborations and an archive project mixing past-season and vintage pieces.

Best for Multi-brand fashion, books and design objects

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Weserstrasse, Neukölln, Berlin

Berlin's coolest bar strip — craft beer, natural wine, cocktails and a young international crowd. The heart of the 'New Berlin'.

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Darmstadt

This Heinheimer Straße atelier hand-makes rings, necklaces and earrings from recycled and ethically sourced gold and 925 silver, with its ALWAYS pendant capturing a fingerprint in metal. Clients can shop online or book a consultation to design pieces in person.

Best for Ethical handmade jewellery and keepsakes

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Frankfurt am Main

A family cider press keeping Frankfurt's Apfelwein tradition, turning Hessian apples into tart apple wine sold by the bottle and Bembel. The Noell family's cider-making runs back through several generations in the city.

Best for Traditional Frankfurt Apfelwein

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Roedelheim, Frankfurt

A long-established, family-owned Frankfurt cider house pressing Hessian apples into Apfelwein and sparkling apple wines at its Roedelheim works. Its labels are a fixture of the city's cider culture.

Best for Frankfurt Apfelwein and sparkling apple wine

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Freiburg im Breisgau

Founded in 1842 as the estate of the State Wine Institute, this working winery farms 37 hectares across Freiburg and the Kaiserstuhl and pioneers disease-resistant PIWI grape varieties. Its Vinotheken pour Baden Rieslings, Pinots, rosé and Sekt alongside the institute's research vintages.

Best for Baden wine and PIWI varietals

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Karlsruhe

scriptor Brennerei distills gin, whisky and other spirits in Karlsruhe and sells the range through its own shop, organized by category, alongside on-site tastings. The company builds its retail around its own production rather than bought-in bottling from other distillers.

Best for Karlsruhe-distilled gin and whisky

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Munich

A Munich fine-food store for delicacies, wine, confectionery and gift hampers. Its flagship is a defining local gourmet address. Established 1930.

Best for Delicacies, wine, confectionery, and gift hampers since 1930

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Munsterplatz, Freiburg

Housed in a historic guardhouse beside Freiburg Munster since 1997, this Baden wine house sorts its bottles into eight taste categories from everyday reds to rare dessert wines. A Weinbar serves by the glass while the Vinothek handles retail, tastings and sommelier advice.

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Rüdesheim / Germany

Asbach has distilled brandy in Rüdesheim am Rhein since Hugo Asbach founded the wine distillery there in 1892, and visitors can tour the working distillery and browse its shop inside the Asbach Besucher Center free of charge. The brand's online shop sells its aged Asbach Uralt brandies, limited editions and branded merchandise for shipping across Germany.

Best for Asbach Uralt brandy and free distillery tours

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Johannesviertel

A small wine and malt whisky merchant on Emilstraße in the Johannesviertel, curating international wines and a deep single-malt selection rather than volume. The shop runs tastings in its cellar, a Thursday wine evening, and delivers around Darmstadt and the Rhine-Main area.

Best for Curated wines and single-malt whisky

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Würzburg / Germany

Run by a 700-year-old charitable foundation in Wurzburg, Burgerspital farms 120 hectares of Franken vineyards and bottles Silvaner, Riesling, and Burgunder in the traditional Bocksbeutel flask. Wine can be bought at the Weinhaus beneath the city's Glockenspiel or through the estate's online Weinshop, with proceeds supporting the foundation's social work.

Best for Wine can be bought at the Weinhaus beneath the city's Glockenspiel

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Stuttgart / Germany

Feinkost Böhm is a Stuttgart delicatessen and wine merchant trading from its Stammhaus at Kronprinzstraße 6, selling gift baskets, wine, champagne and confectionery alongside a restaurant and sushi bar. Its full range is also available through an online shop that ships gift hampers and wine by the case.

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Fischach, Bavaria

Trading in Fischach since 1956, Hauser started as a winery and liqueur works and now blends and bottles mulled wine, sangria, Hugo and alcohol-free iced teas at its Neufnachstrasse premises. The family firm handles wine importing, contract bottling and brand development for the Swabian beverage trade.

Best for Mulled wine, sangria and Hugo specialities

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Würzburg / Germany

Juliusspital is a historic Wurzburg hospital foundation that farms roughly 180 hectares of vineyards and is the largest Silvaner producer in the world, classified up to VDP Grosses Gewachs. Wine can be tasted and purchased at the estate's shop on Klinikstrasse, with the full current list available for order by phone or email.

Best for VDP Silvaner wines and Klinikstrasse tastings

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Bilderstockchen (Geldernstrasse)

Founded in 2016, this small craft distillery on Geldernstrasse makes whisky, gin, genever and liqueurs by hand from its own recipes, including what it calls Cologne's first whisky. Spirits are distilled in 100- and 600-litre stills and hand-bottled, with a tasting and sales room on site.

Best for Handmade Cologne whisky and gin

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Konstanz, Germany (Lake Constance / Bodensee)

The Spitalkellerei has pressed grapes for Konstanz's Heilig-Geist-Spital foundation since 1225. Its vineyards around Meersburg and the lakeside Haltnau estate supply still wines, the sparkling Spitalsekt, and fruit distillates sold from the cellar's own shop in town.

Best for 800-year-old Bodensee estate wine and Spitalsekt sparkling wine

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Meersburg / Germany / Online

Germany's first state wine domain has grown wine above Lake Constance for over 800 years, producing Riesling, Müller-Thurgau and other estate wines from steep lakeside sites. Bottles are sold through its online shop and the Vinothek in Meersburg.

Best for Riesling and Müller-Thurgau above Lake Constance

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Lindau am Bodensee, Germany

Teresa Deufel makes wine in Lindau am Bodensee, continuing a family estate her father Hannes Deufel and uncle Ludwig Haug began planting in 1975 before she started her own production in 2009. The winery's Degelstein wine bar, opened in a former cellar in 2011, pours Föhn-influenced varieties such as Cabernet Blanc, Solaris and Johanniter alongside a calendar of jazz nights and readings.

Best for Lake Constance wines including Cabernet Blanc and Solaris

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Erlenbach am Main

The Waigand family grows Franconian varieties on the steep Churfranken slopes above Erlenbach am Main, bottling dry Silvaner, Riesling and reds. Wines are sold from the estate and its own shop, with a seasonal Häcker tavern for tasting.

Best for Franconian Silvaner, Riesling and red wines

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Rüdesheim / Germany

Weingut Adolf Störzel is a family-run winery on the outskirts of Rüdesheim am Rhein that has cultivated Riesling and Spätburgunder vineyards since Adolf Störzel expanded the estate to ten hectares, with son Benedikt now carrying the winemaking forward. Its wines, including the GrandGold-winning Drachenstein, are sold through the estate's own online shop alongside guided wine tastings at the historic Bassenheimer Hof.

Best for The GrandGold-winning Drachenstein Riesling from a ten-hectare family estate near Rüdesheim

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Ellhofen

A family wine estate on Kurze Straße in the Württemberg village of Ellhofen, selling its own wines and hosting tastings. It also runs a seasonal Besen, the traditional growers' wine tavern that opens for a few weeks at a time.

Best for Württemberg wines and Besen tavern visits

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Rüdesheim am Rhein / Germany

Weingut August Kesseler is a VDP member estate based in Assmannshausen in the Rheingau, farming 33 hectares of Grand and Premier Cru vineyard sites for its Pinot Noir and Riesling wines. Its online shop sells the winery's Grosse Gewächse and everyday Dailys bottlings, and visitors can book a tasting at the estate directly.

Best for Rheingau Pinot Noir and Riesling from Grand Cru vineyards

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Cochem

A family Mosel winery in Cochem offering Riesling and other estate wines, a seasonal Strausswirtschaft wine tavern, and guided wine hikes through the vineyards above town. Bottles are sold direct from the estate.

Best for Estate Riesling and wine hikes

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Ferienland Cochem

A Mosel family winery in the Cochem holiday region with a Vinothek for tastings and direct sales. The estate bottles Riesling and other Mosel varieties grown on the river's slopes.

Best for Mosel wine tastings

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Trier / Germany

Weingut Deutschherrenhof is a family-run Riesling estate in Trier's Olewig wine village, also pouring its Mosel wines in its own Weinstube tavern on Olewigerstraße. The winery sells its full range through a separate online shop.

Best for Mosel Riesling and family Weinstube tastings

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Bernkastel-Kues

Ernst Loosen's Weingut Dr. Loosen farms old, ungrafted Riesling vines across the Middle Mosel's steep slate slopes from its base in Bernkastel-Kues. The estate bottles single-vineyard wines from grand-cru sites such as Wehlener Sonnenuhr and Urziger Wurzgarten.

Best for Single-vineyard Mosel Riesling

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Rüdesheim / Germany

Weingut Dr. Nägler has grown Riesling on the steep Rüdesheimer Berg vineyards for six generations, with records of the family's winegrowing dating to 1826 and the estate today run by Tilbert Nägler. Its wine shop sells Rieslings from the Berg Schlossberg, Berg Roseneck and Berg Rottland sites, and the estate also hosts tastings and vineyard walks from its 19th-century house.

Best for Six generations, with records of the family's winegrowing dating to 1826

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Rüdesheim / Germany

Weingut Georg Breuer is a Rheingau estate in Rüdesheim known for its dry Rieslings from the Berg Schlossberg vineyard, whose label each vintage is designed by a different guest artist. The winery sells current releases through its vinotheque and hosts an annual Open House where visitors can taste the newest vintage alongside older reserves.

Best for Dry Berg Schlossberg Rieslings with a guest-artist label each vintage

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Neustraße 2, Koblenz-Güls

Christian and Kirsten Hähn farm the slate-soil vineyards above Güls that four generations of the family have worked, focusing on Riesling alongside Rivaner, Weißburgunder, Spätburgunder and Dornfelder. From April through November they open the Winzerwirtschaft Rieslinghof on weekends, pouring their own wines with regional food.

Best for Riesling tastings and vineyard-view dining

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Erlenbach am Main

Weingut Hillerich works vineyards in the heart of Churfranken at Erlenbach am Main, producing estate-bottled Franconian whites and reds. The wines are available through the family's own shop and online store.

Best for Estate-bottled Franconian wines

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Stauseestraße 22, Koblenz-Güls

Christoph and Annegret Müller press Riesling, Spätburgunder and Weißburgunder from the Königsfels site's steep and very-steep Mosel slopes, terrain recognized under an EU sustainable-viticulture funding program. Wine is sold directly from the family's Stauseestraße address, with a posted calendar of tastings.

Best for Steep-slope Riesling bought directly from the grower

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Cochem-Sehl

A Cochem estate that has grown Mosel wine since 1673, now run by the Zenzen family and producing Riesling, Grauburgunder, Spatburgunder, and Weissburgunder. Tastings are held in a quiet courtyard away from the town centre, with wines sold direct and online.

Best for Estate Mosel Riesling and Pinots

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Rüdesheim / Germany

Weingut Leitz is a Rheingau estate whose Vinothek in Geisenheim sells its award-winning Rieslings, including the Gault-Millau-rated Berg Schlossberg GG, alongside the winery's alcohol-free Eins-Zwei-Zero line. Orders placed through the Leitz online shop can be collected on-site or shipped, and the estate offers wine tastings by appointment.

Best for The Gault-Millau-rated Berg Schlossberg GG Riesling alongside the alcohol-free Eins-Zwei-Zero line

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Am Zehnthof 12, Koblenz-Güls

Five generations of the Spurzem family have worked this Güls estate, dividing vineyard, cellar and sales work among relatives who each specialize in one part of the process. Their Weinladen sells direct from Am Zehnthof, and a seasonal summer Ausschank pairs three-wine flights with bread and a homemade dip.

Best for Multi-generation family wine tastings

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Trier / Germany

Run by the Schleimer family for three generations, this Trier-Olewig winery grows Riesling behind its own house on Hunsrückstraße alongside Pinot varieties and Kerner. Its Weinstube serves hearty Winzerküche fare with the estate's wines, while a Weinshop handles direct online orders.

Best for Three-generation family Riesling and Kerner wines, hearty Winzerküche fare at the Weinstube

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Münster / Germany

Weinhandlung Peter Nientiedt is a Munster wine merchant established in 1975, keeping close ties with its growers and stocking wines from Germany to overseas alongside champagne, port and spirits. The organically certified shop sells online and in store, delivers locally and hosts tasting events.

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Cochem

A Mosel wine manufactory with tasting rooms in Cochem, bottling Riesling and sparkling Sekt from steep-slope vineyards. Wines are poured and sold directly at its Cochem Vinotheken.

Best for Mosel Riesling and Sekt

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Meersburg / Germany

This 1884-founded cooperative unites 25 grape growers farming 65 hectares of the Meersburg Sonnenufer, Fohrenberg and Saengerhalde slopes above Lake Constance. Its Kronenstrasse cellar sells Mueller-Thurgau, Spaetburgunder and other Bodensee wines by the bottle and runs an online shop for ordering from home.

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