After the disappointment with
my last bottle of wine, I decided to take another risk. The newly opened branch of the supermarket
Edeka in my village has a large selection of Württemberg wines. I noticed that
some of them were on special offer. Only 3.20 Euros for a bottle of Trollinger
with Lemberger? That's not a bad price. Judging by the label, it looked like a
generic wine, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad, so I laid my
money down and took it home.
I was pleasantly surprised by the taste when I finally took a sip in the
evening. The wine has a rich, fruity taste, not as mild as the
Eberbach-Schäfer Trollinger with Lemberger
that I often drink, but still a good wine. I checked the label on the back,
and I realised what I'd bought. It's not a generic wine, it's a product of the
wine cooperative in Möglingen. Möglingen is a small village close to
Stuttgart. They're the largest wine cooperative in Württemberg, and one of the
largest in Germany. Over 10,000 small vineyards in and around Stuttgart supply
their grapes to the cooperative.
I'm critical of wine cooperatives in general. I have no doubt that they work
hard to assure quality control, but can they guarantee consistency? Will the
wine I drink ten years from now taste the same? On the other hand, I trust the
wine from the Besigheimer Felsengarten cooperative. They're only supplied by
220 vineyards, which is a more manageable number.
What's the largest private vineyard in Württemberg that bottles its own wine?
It's difficult to compare, because it's not well documented online. The
largest that I know is Rolf Willy, which covers an area of 265 hectares. (A
hectare is 10,000 square meters or 2.5 acres). Eberbach-Schäfer has only 17
hectares, meaning a smaller variety of wines.
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