Luxembourg makes more wine than it can reasonably drink, in more styles than any single guide can carry. This almanac is our reading of it. 7 regions, ranked the way we'd visit them; the houses our critics keep returning to; and a short list of restaurants where we'd spend the evening.
Femente · Country Almanac
A wine guide toLuxembourg
Luxembourg
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The country, in numbers and adjectives.
The terroirs, by hand.
7 regions worth the trip first — chosen by the Femente desk for the houses we’d open with, the variety of styles within each, and the cooking that grew up around them.
Moselle
The Moselle makes wine that tastes like slate and green apples before it tastes like comfort—bone-dry Rieslings that cut rather than…
Luxembourg
The Moselle's steep slate banks yield wines of such mineral precision that they taste more of stone than fruit—a rigorous expression of…
Crémant de Luxembourg
Crémant de Luxembourg makes sparkling wine on a razor's edge—the northernmost reach where Riesling and Pinot Noir still ripen enough for…
Côtes de Remich
The Moselle's steepest slopes produce wines of mineral tension—high acidity and delicate fruit that demand food, not admiration. Here,…
Coteaux de Schengen
Moselle whites from Luxembourg's Schenck Valley swing between the steely minerality of slate-bound Rieslings and the softer stone-fruit…
Côtes de Grevenmacher
1 estates working under the regional appellation.
Wine of Luxembourg
1 estates working under the regional appellation.
The country’s house grammar.
The 8 styles Luxembourg makes most of, ranked by bottle count on Femente. The bar beneath each cell shows that style’s share of luxembourg’s production.
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Luxembourg Crémant — the country’s most numerous bottle.
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The houses that keep showing up.
5 Luxembourg estates the prestige critics have agreed on — ordered by the count of 95+ scores across Vinous, Decanter, Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator.
Where to spend the evening.
12 rooms across Luxembourg our editors keep coming back to — chosen for the cooking and the wine list, in that order.
Restaurant Lea Linster
French Style · Fine Dining — Frisange
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Camille Julien
Traditional · European — Luxembourg
92
Ilario Mosconi
Traditional · European — Luxembourg
92
Restaurant Guillou Campagne
European · Traditional — Luxembourg
92
Ristorante Fani
Pizza · Italian Style · Traditional — Hesperange
92
Restaurant RYODO
Street Food · European · Creative — Luxembourg
92
Parc Le'h
French Style — Dudelange
88
Renato Favaro
Pasta · Italian Style — Esch-sur-Alzette
82
Aal Schoul
European · Traditional — Hobscheid
82
Le Royal Hotels & Resorts
European · Traditional — Luxembourg
82
Restaurant Loxalis
European · Traditional — Dudelange
82
La Maison Lefevre
European — Esch-sur-Alzette
82
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