Wine factory Untertürkheim
| Weinmanufaktur Untertürkheim eG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | eG |
| founding | 1887 |
| Seat | Stuttgart , Germany |
| management | Bernhard Munk, Reiner Bubeck, Gerd Schmauk, Dieter Strauss |
| Number of employees | 8th |
| Branch | Wine cooperative |
| Website | www.weinmanufaktur.de |
| As of December 31, 2019 | |
The Weinmanufaktur Untertürkheim eG is a wine cooperative , which is headquartered in the urban district Stuttgart-Untertürkheim has in the German wine-growing region Württemberg. It was founded in 1887 at the instigation of the mayor Eduard Fiechtner from Untertürkheim by 34 winemakers under the name of "Weingärtnergesellschaft Untertürkheim". The community wine cellar in Untertürkheim with the large cross-vaulted cellar dates from 1902.
At that time Württemberg was still a separate kingdom and the wine was delivered to the court of the Russian tsar through royal connections. Today there are 40 wine growers who work according to the common credo of “quality over quantity” and “uniqueness over quantity”.
The wine cooperative has been called Weinmanufaktur Untertürkheim since 2002 . The success also convinced the neighbors in 2004: the Obertürkheimer cooperative, founded in 1918, voted unanimously to join the wine factory.
Chairman of the board is Bernd Munk, managing director Stefan Hübner and cellar master Jürgen Off. The vineyards of the member companies cover almost 90 hectares of vineyards in the Untertürkheim sites Altenberg and Mönchberg and the Obertürkheim sites Kirchberg and Ailenberg. The wide range of varieties consists of two thirds of red wine and one third of white wine. These mainly include the traditional Württemberg grape varieties Trollinger (40 ha), Riesling (17 ha), Pinot Noir (10 ha) and Lemberger (8 ha).
Awards
- Three times in a row from 2003 to 2005 first place at the German Red Wine Award in the category "Barrique expansion Lemberger".
- Cellar master Off and managing director Hübner were voted “Gutsverwalter des Jahres” 2005 by Gault-Millau .
- With the award of the third grape in Gault Millau 2009, the Untertürkheim wine manufactory made it into the upper house of Württemberg. With the current wine collection, it is "not only by far the leading winegrowers' cooperative in Württemberg, it can now share the crown for the best cooperative in Germany with colleagues from Mayschoss an der Ahr ".
- In 2019, Weinmanufaktur Untertürkheim was named the best winegrowers' cooperative by Meininger Verlag out of 60 participating cooperatives from Germany.
See also
Web links
- Wine factory Untertürkheim
- Press release 2009 Gault Millau (PDF file; 113 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2019 in the electronic Federal Gazette
- ↑ Weinmanufaktur Untertürkheim: Special print by Weinmanufaktur Untertürkheim to award the third grape. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 9, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
