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Franken Bocksbeutel Experience

Name: Franken Bocksbeutel Experience
Address: Franken, DE

Franken Bocksbeutel — bulbous flask = 400-year Franconian identity — Silvaner from Würzburg's limestone terraces in the world's only legally-protected wine bottle shape.

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TourFranken Bocksbeutel ExperienceIn 1316, Johannes von Steren founded Bürgerspital to care for the elderly of Würzburg. He funded it with vineyards. Seven hundred years later, the wine still pays for nursing homes. The 1540 Steinwein — tasted in 1961, still alive after 421 years — was never opened because nobody could justify the loss. Under the Würzburg Residenz, Balthasar Neumann built 891 metres of wine vaults in the same 1720–1744 construction period as Tiepolo's 677m² ceiling fresco directly above. Every evening, locals drink Silvaner on the Alte Mainbrücke at sunset. The bridge is 500 years old. The wine is 50 metres away.

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Winery Weingut Horst Sauer Franken Escherndorf 1977—daughter Sandra (2004) joins Horst, 150,000 bottles/year Silvaner + Pinot Noir on Lump's limestone slopes.