Kupferberg Museum

Why is sparkling wine called Sekt in Germany and not champagne? How do the bubbles come into the bottle? What is the difference between champagne, brut, Sekt, prosecco and sparkling wine? Answers are to be found to all these questions in the Kupferberg Museum.

The Museum for Sekt and its cultural history is located on the picturesque hill rising above the city. That is where the headquarters of the Sektkellerei Kupferberg, one of Germany's oldest sparkling wine manufacturers, are located. The museum offers a fascinating journey through the unusual history of the effervescent luxury beverage, its beginnings and its culinary importance. There is not only a department devoted to the drink, but also one for the vessels from which it is drunk. With almost 600 glasses, the collection of historic sparkling wine and champagne glasses is the most important collection of its kind worldwide.

Also unique is the "Hall of Grapes" in purest art nouveau style. It was created specially as a wine pavilion for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900. Deep below in the cellars are massive and richly decorated oak barrels. The largest of them has a capacity of some 100,000 liters. The vaults of the building extending down over severallevels are medieval in origin, one part can even be traced back to the Roman period of the Kaestrich

C.A. Kupferberg GmbH & (je KGaA
Kupferbergterrasse 17-19
55116 Mainz
Tel. +49(0)6131'923-0
Fax +49(0)613'-923'222
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