Wine region · Germany
Franken
A dry-wine region known for Silvaner and for its distinctive flask-shaped Bocksbeutel.
About Franken
Franken makes drier, earthier wine than most of Germany, and Silvaner here produces a savoury, herbal, textured white quite unlike Riesling.
The squat Bocksbeutel bottle is legally protected for the region.
What the name means
- Legal name
- Franken (Anbaugebiet)
- Type
- Anbaugebiet (quality wine region)
- Set by
- German Wine Law, administered by the federal states
- Recognised
- 1971
- Regulates
- Origin, plus grape varieties, maximum yields.
The thirteen delimited regions within which German quality wine must be grown, together with the Bereich, Grosslage and Einzellage subdivisions beneath them. Ripeness at harvest is regulated by the separate Prädikat ladder, not by the region.
Grapes
Wines from here
Rules worth knowing
Confirmed in the EU register
Franken is registered as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), file number PDO-DE-A1267, protected at EU level since 1973.
Article 107 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Specification published: Official Journal C, C/2025/6794, 30.12.2025 · Official Journal
Only the rules that change what to expect in the glass or on the label. WineHQ does not reproduce production specifications, and each entry carries the date it was last checked because appellation rules change.
The designation is confirmed above. WineHQ has not read this appellation’s production specification, so it publishes no yields, ageing minima or permitted-variety lists for it — those come from the document linked above, not from a summary of it.
What to eat, and how to serve it
Derived from this region’s signature styles. Each is listed separately, because a region does not have one serving temperature.
Sources
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