Robert Schlumberger from Goldeck

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Robert Schlumberger (lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1879)

Robert Alwin Schlumberger Edler von Goldeck (born September 12, 1814 in Stuttgart , † July 13, 1879 in Vöslau , Lower Austria) was an Austrian sparkling wine manufacturer and entrepreneur.

Life

Robert Schlumberger, who grew up in Stuttgart, had to drop out of school at the age of 14 after the death of his father and start an apprenticeship in a paper trade. He later worked as a businessman in the Ruinart Père et Fils champagne cellar in Reims , France, where he rose to become cellar master and production manager. On a trip to the Rhine, he met Sophie Kirchner, the daughter of a button manufacturer, from Vienna. Since her parents did not agree to move to France, Schlumberger moved to Austria in 1842 and married Sophie. With the aim of also opening a sparkling wine cellar here, he leased vineyards on the so-called Goldeck im Maital from the stately Zehentkeller in Bad Vöslau .

In the following year he already specialized in sparkling wines , which he produced using the Champagne method , and thus brought the first white sparkling wine onto the market in Austria. As a result, due to the nature of the soil in Vöslau, he bought the vineyards in the Goldeggen vineyard, where the vines for the red wine that he produced from 1844 also thrived. As early as 1845, his wines received awards in London and at the Viennese trade fair. He received further medals in Munich in 1854, in Paris in 1855, in London in 1861, in Dublin in 1865, and in Vienna in 1866. In 1862, Vöslauer Sparkling , as he was now calling the sparkling wine, was put on the British Queen Victoria's wine list . In Vienna, too, Schlumberger was purveyor to the imperial court .

He also registered a cuvée for trademark protection with the name Vöslauer Goldeck . It is the oldest wine brand in Austria. Schlumberger sent his Vöslauer Goldeck on test trips for export on the SMS Novara . The Vöslauer sparkling wine even found its way into literature.

Starting from his company, he also founded numerous branches abroad, such as in London in 1863 or in Berlin in 1876 . He also had agencies in the United States. In his new home in Bad Vöslau, Schlumberger was mayor of the municipality from 1864 to 1870. A year before his death in 1878, Schlumberger was raised to the hereditary nobility as a noble von Goldeck .

After the death of the company founder, the company was split up as a general partnership between his three sons: Otto Schlumberger von Goldeck (1846–1934), finance, purchasing; Gustav Schlumberger von Goldeck (1848–1921), domestic and international sales, and Robert Schlumberger von Goldeck (1850–1939) , agriculture.

The Schlumberger sparkling wine cellar in Vienna and the winery in Vöslau are now operated by Underberg AG .

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  1. ↑ Production was 10,000 in 1842, 20,000 in 1844, 40,000 in 1845, produced / bottled in a rock cellar leased by the Vöslau rulers for 20 years with a newly built pressing and manipulation building above. - See: X. Consumtibilien. (...) Wine .. In:  Journal des Oesterreichischer Lloyd , supplement report on the current Austrian general industrial exhibition (No. XXVI / 1845, July 15, 1845), July 20, 1845, p. 6 (unpaginated), top right . (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / oll.
  2. ↑ (...) Schlumberger's surrogate champagne (...)  - See: W (ilhelm) Schlesinger :  Feuilleton. Of courses and guests. II. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 2856/1872, August 7, 1872, p. 2, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ↑ Bad Vöslau - home of all the senses in an adventure region
personal data
SURNAME Schlumberger von Goldeck, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlumberger Edler von Goldeck, Robert Alwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sparkling wine producer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1879
Place of death Bad Vöslau , Lower Austria