Weinfest auf Schloss Blutenburg

The Weinfest auf Schloss Blutenburg brings Palatinate wine, food, and live music to the courtyard of Schloss Blutenburg, a late-Gothic castle in Munich's Obermenzing district, each Ascension weekend. The 2026 edition runs Thursday 14 through Sunday 17 May, with hours Thursday through Saturday 11:00–22:00 and Sunday 11:00–20:00. Named Palatinate wine estates — among them Weingut Scholler, Stübinger, Ökonomierat Lind, and Martinshof — pour Rhineland-Palatinate wines, Sekt, and Obstbrand rather than Bavaria's own Franconian pours, framed by organizers as a decades-old friendship festival between Bavaria and the Pfalz. An admission fee applies: €2.50 per person for 2026, consistent with €2 charged in 2024 and €2.50 in 2025 — visitors should budget for a small gate fee rather than expect free entry, and wine, food, and drink are all purchased separately from the participating estates.

Three different ages are worth keeping straight here. Schloss Blutenburg itself is genuinely medieval, first documented in 1432 and rebuilt as a residential palace between 1431 and 1440. The Verein der Freunde Schloss Blutenburg e.V., the Munich-side association that hosts the wine festival on the castle grounds, is a much younger institution, founded in 1974 and marking its 50th anniversary in 2024. The wine festival itself is younger still — roughly four decades old, tracing to the mid-1980s, with 2026 marking its 42nd edition (interrupted only by a 2020 pandemic-year cancellation). None of these three histories should be mistaken for one another.

It's a distinctive stop for a Munich itinerary precisely because it isn't local wine: visitors get a taste of the Palatinate's Südliche Weinstraße wine region without leaving Bavaria, set against a genuinely medieval castle courtyard rather than a beer-tent atmosphere. See Weinfest auf Schloss Blutenburg page or explore Upper Bavaria.