Thursday, October 30, 2025

Brezel-Bursch and Outstanding Wines at Mainlust Desche Otto in Frankfurt, Schwanheim (Ocotober 2025)






   

The Loire Tour 2025 by ombiasy WineTours took place from Sunday, October 5 to Thursday, October 16, 2025. Before and after the tour, Annette and I spent a couple of days at our house in Frankfurt/ Schwanheim. 

In Frankfurt, our place to go is Mainlust Desche Otto in Frankfurt, Schwanheim, a few blocks away from where we live in Frankfurt. Mainlust Desche Otto is a traditional Frankfurt apple wine tavern. Frankfurt has a large number of traditional apple wine taverns, where you sit on benches, eat hearty local food and drink sour and tart German apple wine. Typically, there is only one apple wine – the house apple wine – available, in some cases made on the premises. The apple wine tavern (Apfelweinwirtschaft) is as distinctive a Frankfurt institution as the Bierkeller is of Munich or the Weinstube of Mainz. Many of the best-known establishments are concentrated in Sachsenhausen, but others are dotted all over the city. They are strongly traditional. They offer hearty local cuisine, usually at moderate prices.

See:
Schiller's Favorite Apple Wine Taverns in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mainlust “Desche Otto” – an Ultra Traditional Apple Wine Tavern, with an Innovative Twist, off the Beaten Track in Schwanheim, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
Brezel-Bursch
 
When I was young, every Frankfurt Apple Wine Tavern would see at least once every evening a Brezel Bursch with his basket walking around and selling brezels. Today, the Brezel Bursch has become a rare species. 
 




 
Outstanding Wines

Louie and Claudia always had wine on their menu. But they now have a formal wine list comprising 130 wines from Germany and other countries. In addition, one can bring wine from home and Louie and Claudia charge a reasonable corkage fee.  








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