About DOMAINE EVA FRICKE
It is a rather unusual story that describes Eva Fricke’s journey to wine. Firstly, she has no family connection to viticulture; her parents are doctors. Secondly, she does not come from a wine region, but from the North of Germany. However, more than 20 years ago the Bremen native found her home in the Rheingau and embarked on an impressive path that eventually led to her own start-up winery in 2011.
Today Eva Fricke runs a 17-hectare domaine with tasting room in Eltville. Among her customers are international award-winning chefs and luxury hotels such as Das Kronenschlösschen in Hattenheim, Lafleur in Frankfurt, Fontenay in Hamburg, Dallmayr in Munich, Johannes King on Sylt, Esszimmer in the BWM Welt Munich, Restaurant Haubentaucher in Rottach-Egern, Søllerød Kro and Alchemist in Denmark, the Steirereck in Vienna, Leroy and Clove Club London, Atomix and Daniel New York, Atelier Crenn and Single Thread Farms San Francisco, the Park Hyatt in Beijing, W-Hotel Shanghai and Sühring Bangkok, as well as the Norwegian royal family, to name but a few.
Reviews have also been enthusiastic: In 2013, the Domaine Eva Fricke was voted “Newcomer of the Year” by gourmet magazine Falstaff. The international wine magazine “Fine” named it “Best StartUp” in its edition “New Generation — The 111 Best Young German Winemakers”. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung awarded Eva Fricke the 2015 title of “Winemaker Rising Star of the Year”, while Stuart Pigott chose her as “Riesling Heroine 2016”. In 2017, the Feinschmecker magazine named the Domaine Eva Fricke a “2017/18 Aufsteiger”.
Since 2019 it has been ranking the business among the 3 top wineries in the Rheingau and the 21 best in Germany — with its highest rating of 5F. In 2020 the Domaine Eva Fricke achieved a triple accolade, when both Robert Parker and James Suckling awarded 100 points for the 2019 Lorcher Krone TBA, and the 2019 Lorcher Krone dry also received the critics’ top rating of 100 points from James Suckling.
“Not only was this the first time in the history of the Rheingau that a wine had been awarded 100 Parker points, but Eva Fricke is also the first female winemaker in Germany to achieve this highest score. Remarkable is that the awarded wines came from a nearly forgotten vineyard site in the very north of the region: the Lorcher Krone, Eva’s first ever vineyard.”
Most recently, Eva Fricke wines from Lorch achieved top prices at a Sotheby’s auction in September 2021, where the Lorcher Krone TBA auctioned for 4380€/0.375L. In the same year Eva was awarded second place in the World’s Best Rising Star category at the Golden Vines Awards 2021.
