School · Rheinhessen

Sekt (German Sparkling) Masterclass

Name: Sekt (German Sparkling) Masterclass
Address: Rheinhessen, DE

German Sekt masterclass teaches traditional méthode champenoise sparkling production from Rhine + Mosel regions' premium Riesling + Chardonnay grapes.

What to do there

EducationSekt (German Sparkling) MasterclassEvery bottle of German Sekt has €1.02 built into its price — a tax Kaiser Wilhelm II introduced in 1902 to fund the Imperial Navy. The fleet self-scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919. The tax was never cancelled. Germans drink more sparkling wine per capita than any nation on Earth. Kupferberg's cellar in Mainz descends seven stories, 50 metres underground, past 2,000-year-old Roman amphoras that sheltered families from Allied bombs in 1945. In 1800, a butcher's son named Johann-Joseph Krug was born in this city. He crossed the Rhine and founded what many consider the world's greatest Champagne house.

Wineries nearby

Winery · Mainz Mainz Roman Theatre Mainz Roman Theatre (1 BCE Moguntiacum) — ancient amphitheatre within wine region — Rhine Rieslings poured where Roman legions watched gladiators; now wine taverns occupy same stone foundations.
Winery · Rheingau Schloss Johannisberg Rheingau castle (817 Charlemagne origins, 1748 oldest cellar bottle) pioneers Spätlese + Eiswein with 900 years Riesling-exclusive fermentation history.
Winery Weingut Wittmann Rheinhessen Westhofen (1663→1921 bottling)—biodynamic since 2004, organic since 1990, Philipp "Germany's best white winemaker," oak cask aged Rieslings.