Winegrowers' cooperative Deutsches Weintor
| Deutsches Weintor eG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | eG |
| founding | 1956 |
| Seat | Ilbesheim , Germany |
| management |
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| Number of employees | 97 |
| sales | EUR 37.2 million |
| Branch | Viticulture |
| Website | weintor.de/ |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Deutsches Weintor eG is a German wine cooperative on the German Wine Route with headquarters in Ilbesheim near Landau in the Palatinate in the Southern Wine Route district .
Wines
The product range includes wines of different grape varieties, including noble grapes such as Riesling , Chardonnay or Pinot Noir , but also regional specialties (e.g. Müller-Thurgau / Rivaner or Kerner ). One focus of production is Dornfelder . Sold the wines on the food retail market in buying and department stores , in restaurants and in the hotel's own wine shops .
history
The history of the German wine cooperative began in 1956. Under the leadership of Wilhelm Knecht, Ludwig Fleischer and others, winegrowers on the Southern Wine Route founded the Kleine Kalmit regional wine cooperative . In 1967 there was a merger with the South Palatinate winegrowers' cooperative Weintor and the resulting renaming to Deutsches Weintor eG .
Name Deutsches Weintor
Deutsches Weintor eG is named after the 18-meter-high Deutsche Weintor in Schweigen-Rechtenbach . It has marked the entrance to the German Wine Route in Schweigen-Rechtenbach since 1936 and has been fully owned by the wine cooperative since 2007. Here you will find one of the two vinotheques of Deutsches Weintor eG, as well as the Deutsches Weintor restaurant. The winegrowers' cooperative took over gastronomy from the district of Südliche Weinstrasse in 2007 and reopened it in spring 2009 after extensive renovation work. The German Wine Gate and its entire complex can also be visited on guided tours.
Members
As of December 31, 2018, the cooperative had 434 members.
Awards and certifications
Wines from Deutsches Weintor eG regularly take part in all important wine competitions and tastings in the specialist press. At the state award for wine and sparkling wine for Rhineland-Palatinate , seven wines from Deutsches Weintor have been awarded the Golden Chamber Prize Coin in the past five years . The German Agricultural Society (DLG) awarded Deutsches Weintor eG the award DLG-recommended winegrowers' cooperative . In 2010 Deutsches Weintor won three gold and two silver medals at the largest officially recognized wine competition in the world, Mundus Vini .
In 2010 Deutsches Weintor was again awarded the International Food Standard certification ( quality management norm ) Higher Level .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2018 on Bundesanzeiger.de, accessed on June 18, 2020
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: State award for wine and sparkling wine )
- ↑ A success story from the start (PDF; 791 kB) in Die Rheinpfalz - No. 110 of May 12, 2007
- ^ Golden autumn for Deutsches Weintor on the Palatinate marketing page