Rudolf Fürst

Weingut Rudolf Fürst is one of Germany’s benchmark Pinot Noir estates, based in Bürgstadt in the Churfranken sector of Franconia. The Fürst family can trace its winegrowing roots back to 1638, but the modern chapter began in 1979, when Paul and Monika Fürst built the current winery amid the Centgrafenberg vineyards and began painstakingly recultivating steep, prime parcels. Their son Sebastian, after experience in Geisenheim and leading cellars around Europe and beyond, joined in 2007 and took over with his wife Is…