A STRONG TEAM
»We are deeply proud of our entire team, as we push forward and create together!«
Bernd & Andreas Spreitzer
Specializes in:
managing director, operations manager, cellar & distribution/sales
Favorite wine in our collection:
Wisselbrunnener VDP.Grosses Gewächs, Hallgartener “Buntschiefer” (multicolored slate)
Best/funniest wine experience:
»It was on my 3rd birthday. Everyone was gathered in the kitchen. The grown-ups were drinking wine. My parents wanted to show the guests our cellar. I stayed alone in the kitchen, climbed up on the table and tried the wine in the glasses. The Spätlese was wonderfully sweet and I just kept on sipping happily.«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»Well, I wasn’t quite good enough as a race car driver, so I decided to take a whirl at the family wine business.« (grinning)
Specializes in:
managing director, operations manager, cellar & distribution/sales
Favorite wine in our collection:
Rosengarten GG
Best/funniest wine experience:
»I love to reminisce about an amazing wine tasting with very old Riesling wines that I was once able to take part in. The youngest vintage we tasted was 1908! Wines over 100 years old – phenomenal!«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»My parents are my biggest heroes. So it’s always been very obvious to me that we would follow after them in running the wine estate.«
Specializes in:
consumer sales, event planning and bookkeeping
Favorite wine(s) in our collection:
Winkel Jesuitengarten “Alte Reben” (Old Vines), Josef Spreitzer Riesling b.A. -BRUT- (sparkling wine)
Best/funniest wine experience:
»On his 80th birthday my father-in-law opened a bottle of a 1933 vintage, his own year of birth. It is a very special treat to be able to taste such a rarity.«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»My father! His hobby and passion was winegrowing and his enthusiasm for wine and sparkling wine rubbed off on me.«
Specializes in:
cellar and vineyards
Favorite wine in our collection:
Winkeler Jesuitengarten “Alte Reben” (Old Vines)
Best/funniest wine experience:
»Once we bottled 30,000 liters of wine in just two days. It was crazy, an absolute record. I never thought that we could do it.«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»My father-in-law Andrzej introduced me to the Spreitzer family and into the world of wine.«
Specializes in:
logistics
Favorite wine in our collection:
Winkeler Jesuitengarten Riesling “Alte Reben” (Old Vines) off-dry
Best/funniest wine experience:
»I met my wonderful husband Christian during the harvest of 2007!«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»My sister had me tag along to my first grape harvest. That’s where I experienced my first contact with wine.«
Specializes in:
vineyards
Favorite wine in our collection:
Winkeler Jesuitengarten Riesling “Alte Reben” (Old Vines)
Best/funniest wine experience:
»One day I was working in a somewhat remote vineyard. Suddenly I realized that there was no one else around me. They had somehow forgotten me. Tough luck. A while later a colleague, grinning and with a bit of a bad conscience, came to get me. Today I laugh about it!«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»My dear colleague Andrzej Bugzel! I am very thankful to him for it.«
Specializes in:
vineyards and logistics
Favorite wine in our collection:
Oestricher Lenchen Spätlese »303«
Best/funniest wine experience:
»The harvest of 2012 was unusually relaxed. The weather was fantastic and we could easily take our time picking the grapes. If it were only that way every year!«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»Wine has always fascinated me because it is so multifaceted. In particular Riesling.«
Specializes in:
vineyards
Favorite wine in our collection:
Rosengarten VDP.Grosses Gewächs
Best/funniest wine experience:
»The harvest. Every year anew. A wonderful time. No one harvest is the same as another. It’s always exciting!«
What moved me to a career in wine:
»My grandparents own a winery. I spent many a happy day there as a child.«
— Falstaff —