2024-08-18 12:44:30
It doesn’t take much for a wonderful summer evening: one, two, maybe three decent wines, some bread, butter, olives and a bottle of water. Table and chairs, later, when it’s dark, a tea light in a glass – and a good conversation. Everything is this evening on the field in front of the “Weinbar Butte” in Frankfurt’s Nordend.
Opposite on Friedberger Platz, people are enjoying the last rays of the sun of the day. Here – on the other side of the Friedberger Landstrasse – you sit on the simple garden furniture under the trees, a few steps further on the people playing boules, and on the main road the sidewalks as always in the city great.
In the glass we have two wines from the Friedrich Becker winery in the Palatinate, the White Burgundy Silence and the stunning Grauburgunder Kalkmergel, which looks like a light rosé with its cool color, but surprises in the mouth with full body and great melting. Six days on the mash and six months in the barrel is the secret of this amazing wine – and the three young operators of the “Weinbar Butte”, which opened only in March, cannot be praised for such a wine from beyond the primitive on the list.
In general, Sophia Schmidt, Janis Müller-Späth and Marc Selariu deserve a lot of praise for their idea, one that is not explained in the famous side of Friedberger Platz in the rooms that already housed one or two restaurants and recently “Haru Sushi “, to open a happy wine situation. The interior is simple, almost minimalistic in white and gray-green and furnished with simple wooden furniture. Behind the large counter there are plain wooden shelves with bottles and glasses and chandeliers with red cables hanging from the ceiling.
Down-to-earth and impressive quality
The menu also has no frills at all, the focus is on wines: 15 sparkling wines, around 40 still wines, as well as water, lemonade, beer and three whiskeys. Without exception, there are wines from the six German wine-growing regions Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Franconia, Nahe, Palatinate and Mosel, many of them are also available in 0.1 and 0.2 liter glasses at prices between Europe 5.60 and 15, lime marl. Pinot Gris from Friedrich Becker, for example, for an exorbitant 7,30 or 12 euros.
More than a snack: chanterelle teriyaki with tripe and wild herb pestoWonge BergmannFor guests who want to go deeper and have a palate for mature wines, there is an extensive menu with great vineyards and great wines and all mature wines, especially Rieslings, which you don’t get in your glass every day. This selection reflects the requirements of the three “Butte” makers – it does not change their low-margin presentation method. And so the wine tastings that they offer their guests are not described by technical words and expert prose, but rather the enjoyment of wine and drinking information.
In addition to the wines, there are also many small things to eat at the tables – either in the dining room or in the space in front of the door: chips, olives and homemade pickles, fluffy, Crunchy flour bread, lots of butter variations. , cheese and French salami, individually or all together, whatever suits you.
Above all, the bread, which on this hot summer evening is said to have been baked by a Canadian communist on the Sandweg, is a perfect accompaniment to the wines – full of character but down -ground, of impressive quality but not. ruler. A bit like “Weinbar Butte” and its three operators.
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