Peter Mertes
| Peter Mertes KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | KG |
| founding | 1924 |
| Seat | Bernkastel-Kues , Germany |
| management | Managing directors authorized to represent:
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| Number of employees | 350 |
| sales | +300 million EUR (as of 2017) |
| Branch | Wine economy |
| Website | www.mertes.de |
| Status: 2018 | |
The Peter Mertes KG is a Rhineland-Palatinate winery .
The company is the largest German winery. The family-run business generates an annual turnover of over 300 million euros. 350 employees are employed and more than 2.5 million hectoliters are bottled each year (2013). A large part of the production is sold under private label in supermarket chains such as Aldi , Lidl , or Rewe . The company is known internationally for its Liebfrauenmilch . The company is based in Bernkastel-Kues on the Middle Moselle .
history
The company was founded by the winery owner and master winemaker Peter Mertes in 1924 in Minheim and dealt with the production and sale of Moselle wine . In the 1950s, his son-in-law Gustav Willkomm expanded the activities to include the wine-growing regions of Rheinhessen and Palatinate . In the 1960s, the range was expanded to include wines from the Rheingau and Nahe .
Today wine from all over Rhineland-Palatinate is marketed. The company's aim is to make wine super marketable . That means offering standardized, constantly available goods. Today, Peter Mertes wine can be found in all parts of Germany and in many foreign markets. The company owns Germany's largest barrique cellar, a 240 m long slate vaulted cellar from the 19th century with 1,500 barrique barrels of 225 l, in which Dornfelder is expanded .
Peter Mertes family wineries
The company's wineries are grouped under the Peter Mertes Familienweingüter KG. It encloses individual vineyards as well as traditional houses that operate independently.
The Peter Mertes family wineries acquires businesses without a successor, invests in modern equipment and repositions the wineries for the market. The aim is to preserve centuries-old vineyards in the local growing area. In total, the Peter Mertes family wineries cultivate around 120 hectares of vineyards on the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer. The location portfolio includes well-known vineyards such as Bernkasteler Doctor , Ockfener Bockstein or Wehlener Sundial . The Witwe Dr. H. Thanisch Erben Müller-Burggraef with the historic Doctor's cellar directly under the Berncasteler Doctor vineyard is one of the most important properties of the family wineries.
Peter Mertes grant
Since 1985, the Bonner Kunstverein has awarded the Peter Mertes scholarship, a proposal scholarship to which selected and annually changing experts invite. The prize consists of a monthly grant over a year, followed by a special exhibition with a catalog, and is specifically aimed at “young artists who have often just left their training”. The Peter Mertes Weinkellerei and the Bonner Kunstverein, on the other hand, want to help artists “to create more space for their work in a time of great uncertainty”.
Web links
- Website Peter Mertes KG Weingut
- Andrea Exler: Beverage Factory - The man who makes wine for Aldi and Lidl. In: Welt-Online. September 13, 2007, accessed September 15, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The wine in the supermarkets has never been so good" . In: FAZ Plus . ( faz.net [accessed June 11, 2018]).
- ↑ More vines on the Moselle, Saar and Ruwer. In: Trierischer Volksfreund , August 6, 2013, accessed on May 12, 2014
- ^ Description of the Rotwild Cellar in Bernkastel-Kues. Retrieved May 12, 2014
- ↑ Werner Engelhard: Prominent addition to Mertes family wineries. Fraund Verlag, June 14, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ^ Bonner Kunstverein »Scholarship. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .