Lufthansa has an award-winning wine programme ‘Vinothek Discoveries’. Together with Master of Wine, Markus Del Monego, we put together a new selection of outstanding wines every two months for passengers in First and Business Class.
Lufthansa has an award-winning wine programme ‘Vinothek Discoveries’. Together with Master of Wine, Markus Del Monego, we put together a new selection of outstanding wines every two months for passengers in First and Business Class.
Facts and figures about Lufthansa’s wine selection
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- Each year we issue 30-35 invitations to tender.
- We receive suggestions for the tenders from specialist magazines and online, via trade fairs, wine tastings, talks to specialist groups and recommendations.
- Our criteria for selecting the wine correspond to our customers’ wishes and market trends.
- The selection is not made on the basis of the label or the name, but purely on the basis of the quality of the wine: at 10 – 12 meetings a year a committee of external and internal wine experts, together with Markus Del Monego, evaluate the wines in a blind tasting using an international 20-point system.
- During the wine tastings we make sure that the wines have the right character and that they fulfil the requirements to be served on board our flights:
- We give preference to wines with reduced acidity or wines containing less tannin.
- We use wines with somewhat more residual sugar and/or a higher level of alcohol, as residual sugar and alcohol appear weaker at altitude.
