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Franken

Main grapes: It’s not exactly a list of your average go-to grapes but even so…Müller-Thurgau, Silvaner, Bacchus, Riesling and Kerner.

Sub-regions: Würzburg, Mainviereck

Climate: Put simply: continental. Warm, dry summers and some seriously chilly winters. 

You should know... Franken doesn’t really do much in the way of making a consumer’s life easy. Not only does it have two names – ‘Franconia’ seems to be the English adaptation – but producers of this region also bottle their wines in Bocksbeutel. Imagine your average wine bottle had been sat on (by something exceedingly large – an elephant would probably do), and promptly flattened and you have a standard Bocksbeutel. Good luck to anyone who tries to fit one of these little gems in a wine rack; the phrase square peg in a round hole comes to mind. 
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A Bocksbeutel in all its flattened glory.
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