Friedrich Kiefer winery
| Friedrich Kiefer winery | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1851 |
| Seat | Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl |
| management | Martin Schmidt |
| Number of employees | 20-23 |
| Branch | Viticulture |
| Website | http://www.weingutkiefer.de/ |
The Weingut Friedrich Kiefer is one from Baden family winery in Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl with 15 hectares able Eichstetter Mr. Buck . It is planted with the heavyweight on Pinot Noir. Furthermore, grapes from contract winemakers with a total of 92 hectares are vinified and marketed, which are considered producer bottling . This makes the winery one of the largest wineries and cellars in Germany.
history
In 1851, the winery was founded in the center of Eichstetten by the teacher Friedrich Kiefer, who came from the Markgräflerland . In 1886 his son Fritz Kiefer took over the winery and managed it until 1930, when it was taken over by his two sons-in-law Gustav König and Friedrich Grafahrend. Gustav König's daughter Hanna Körner born. König worked in the company together with her husband Siegfried Körner and their daughter Vera Hammer. After the family had sold their shares in 1990 and left the company, Lutz Grafahrend managed the company as the sole owner. Since there was no interested successor from his own family, the son of a winemaker and oenologist from Eichstetten, Martin Schmidt, who had been the manager of the winery since 2003, became the successor . He and his wife Helen Schmidt took over the winery in 2008 to continue running it as a family business. In 2011 a bottling plant for bag-in-box wines was put into operation. In addition to traditional sales through specialist retailers and restaurants, the company is increasingly focusing on online marketing.
The wines of the winery received 1 red grape in the Gault-Millau 2012 wine guide, 2 stars in the Eichelmann wine guide and 2 stars in Wein-Plus .
Grape varieties
- 34% Pinot Noir
- 24% Pinot Gris
- 18% Müller-Thurgau
- 12% Pinot Blanc
- 12% other grape varieties: Riesling , Chardonnay , Muskateller , Scheurebe , Gewürztraminer
Locations
The winery itself cultivates 15 hectares of the 350 hectare "Eichstetter Herrenbuck" site. The Herrenbuck is one of the higher elevations of the Kaiserstuhl and is covered with loess and loess clay soils up to 30 meters thick ; in the highest part there is also volcanic weathered soil. The higher elevation extends the vegetation phase so that the harvest begins later than in the other locations of the Kaiserstuhl.
Awards
- International Pinot Gris Prize 2012: 2nd place in category 3 for 2010 Eichstetter Herrenbuck Pinot Gris QbA dry "Dreistern"
- AWC Vienna 2011 - International Wine Challenge: 4 gold medals, 3 silver medals
Web links
Website of the Friedrich Kiefer winery
literature
- Families of wine 2012 ( Meininger Verlag ):
- Weinwirtschaft ( Meininger Verlag ) Edition 17/12 pp. 14 and 15: Using the size - report on the Friedrich Kiefer winery by Clemens Gerke
- Weinwirtschaft ( Meininger Verlag ) Edition 16/12 p. 24 ff .: Baden's large private marketers - beneficiaries of structural change
- Wine ( Meininger Verlag ) Edition 09/12 page 18 ff .: Tender growth - rose, and no end in sight
- Wein + Markt (Fachverlag Dr. Fraund) issue 05/12 p. 64: "Butterflies" are well received
- Wein + Markt (Fachverlag Dr. Fraund) Edition 02/12 p. 100: ProWein innovations: Pure - sulfur-free organic Pinot Noir from the Kiefer winery
- Diplomatisches Magazin issue 04/12 p. 72: "Dragging with the clouds" in the wine spring
- Top Magazin Bielefeld Issue 02/12 p. 172: Young, fresh and innovative. The Friedrich Kiefer winery (Baden)
- wein.pur (Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Vienna) issue 01/12 p. 14: Planet Pinot
- Wein + Markt (Fachverlag Dr. Fraund) Edition 07/11 p. 8: Anniversary sweetened
- Wein + Markt (Fachverlag Dr. Fraund) Issue 05/11 p. 29: Sparkling creations - the avalanche is rolling
- Weinwirtschaft ( Meininger Verlag ) issue 04/11 p. 34 ff .: Rosé - a growing market
- eat & drink (printing and publishing house Gruner + Jahr and Bertelsmann) Issue 04/11 p. 73: For a glass with Renate Frank - Back to nature
- Focus issue 49/11 p. 126 ff .: Divas and misunderstood stars (Germany's best Pinot Noir)
- Wein + Markt (Fachverlag Dr. Fraund) issue 10/10 p. 12 ff.: Talents from Baden - B as in bandwidth
- Wein + Markt (Fachverlag Dr. Fraund) Issue 09/10: “Young Line” for young people
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://gaultmillau.de/guides/wines/2134_2__weingut-friedrich-kiefer
- ↑ Gerold Zink: Gastronomy: Eichelmann and Gault Millau: Important wine guides give local winemakers good marks. Badische Zeitung, December 8, 2011, accessed on November 15, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.wein-plus.eu/de/Weingut+Friedrich+Kiefer_2.0.12.0.75.0.566.0.208.html
- ↑ The top rating for Gault Millau is 5 grapes and Eichelmann is 5 stars. Wein-Plus writes about 2-star producers: Quality that is well above average to excellent on a regular basis, but weaker wines and vintages can also occur. A purchase is usually worthwhile.
- ↑ The Kaiserstühler Weinlage Herrenbuck ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kaiserstuhl.eu
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.weingutkiefer.de/global/downloads/26-fow12_kiefer_D.pdf.pdf
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 33.94 " N , 7 ° 44 ′ 44.52" E