Winzervereinigung Freyburg Opening times wine gallery: Monday – Friday 7 am - 6 pm our company’s philosophy: We are giving the vine from Saale and Unstrut a home and we’re staying in a thousand-year-old tradition of viticulture. In 1934, 27 wine-grower founded the wine-growing association because this viticulture was threatened to die out. Because of this union grapes could grow especially near the river valleys, so we could keep our traditional landscape with their terraces and vineyards. As the biggest wine company in the middle of Germany we stay for quality and distinctiveness. Therefore are 420 members who are take care of an area from 400 hectare. Which is 50 % of the wine-growing-region. Approximately 3 million bottles of wine are going to be produced in ultra-modern cellar facilities in the wine-growing association every year. The historical wood barrel cellar is the largest of its kind in Germany. The company and its Portfolio On a guided tour around the company the visitors can see the greatest and largest wood barrel cellar in Germany and in the „Freyburger Weingalerie“ is the wine shop located and you can even try some of the wines there. There are still 134 wooden barrels which are used for the development of the red wines. Meanwhile the red wine accounts (which contains Portugieser, Spätburgunder, Dornfelder and Blauer Zweigelt) about 22%. Since the beginning of the early 90s the production also contains barrique wines. In oak wood barrel mature Dornfelder and André as well as many other white wines to barrique wines. Besides the traditional varieties of white wine which is Müller Thurgau and Silvaner dominate also Riesling and the Burgunder varieties. The extinctive wine list maintains nearly all grape varieties of the region and offers from quality wine Types of grapes: Müller-Thurgau, Silvaner, Weißburgunder, Grauburgunder, Riesling, Traminer, Gutedel, Kerner, Bacchus, Hölder, Portugieser, Dornfelder, Blauer Zweigelt, Spätburgunder, Regent, André Special Offers: Guided tours of the cellar for individual visitors wine tastings for individual visitors You can find more guided tours here: https://www.winzervereinigung-freyburg.de/en/17.129/winzervereinigung/events/guided-tours Events: Contact:
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