Sustainable Wine List of Germany awarded to Frea, Berlin
Berlin's Frea has the won the Gold Star for Sustainable Wine List for the second time in Germany, as announced at the Star Wine List of the Year Germany 2025 awards, held during ProWein at Messe Düsseldorf.
Sustainability ambitions are often high at newly-established venues, but economic challenges and the difficulties of everyday sourcing lead many to lower their ambitions with time. This makes it even more impressive that Frea has now won the Sustainable Wine List of Germany not only once but twice – adding their 2025 win to a Gold Star achieved in 2023.
On Monday 17 March, the team from Frea was awarded a Gold Star for Sustainable Wine List by category sponsor Lingua Franca. The ceremony was hosted by Star Wine List's Publisher, Krister Bengtsson and Berlin Ambassador, Emmanuel Rosier, who also acted as a judge the competition.
According to Rosier “this wine list is a benchmark for sustainability, featuring exclusively organic, biodynamic, and low-intervention wines that align with its zero-waste philosophy. By prioritising ethical sourcing and ecological responsibility, they prove that great wine and sustainability can go hand in hand without compromise.”
Frea will now compete against our global Sustainable Wine List winners in the Star Wine List of the Year International Final, which will be held in Vienna on 16 June.
Explore the full list of winners at Star Wine List of the Year Germany 2025.
Runners Up
Silver Stars for the Best Sustainable Wine List were awarded to:
Barra, Berlin
BellasLokal, Bad Soden
Horváth, Berlin
Romantik Hotel Schloss Hohenstein, Ahorn
Jury panel
Star Wine List of the Year Germany 2025 was judged by four top wine experts:
• Jan Konetzki – four-time UK Sommelier of the Year
• Emanuel Rosier – Berlin Ambassador
• Pascaline Lepeltier – Best Sommelier of France 2018
• Stefan Neumann – Master Sommelier
Categories and criteria
Star Wine List judges the wine lists in several categories such as the Best Sparkling Wine List and Best By the Glass List. These categories are the same across all of the awards. In addition, local categories may be added. We have commercial partners for certain categories, such as the Best Austrian Wine List, presented by Austrian Wine. The commercial partners are, however, never involved in the selections of finalists or winners — that is completely up to our independent jury panel.
The criteria for the jury are straightforward but not simple: vote for the most exciting wine list representing the category.
The winners in the international categories will qualify for our International Final in June 2025, where they will face off with the category winners from other countries and continents.
Read about the terms and how Star Wine List judges the wine lists here.
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