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More and more winegrowers, also in Baden, are marketing their wines as country wine. They rely on the individuality and character of their wines - and thus on a different understanding of quality beyond conventional rules. At the premiere of the "Baden Country Wine Market" on Friday, 28 April 2017 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Landhotel Alte Post, Posthalterweg, 79379 Müllheim, 14 of them want to show what country wine can do. According to the organizers, all participating winegrowers, among them many younger colleagues, do not want "to have their products pressed into a corset of regulations for quality wines". It is more important to them, they say, to work out the individuality of their wines "and not mainstream goods restricted by regulations". Among the establishments serving the wines are, for example, branding irons and ornamental irons from Efringen-Kirchen, Burkhart from Malterdingen and Enderle & Moll from Münchweier. A total of about 80 wines are to be tasted.
According to the organisers, the wines on offer are "in the best sense of the word products of passionate craftsmanship, not wines styled on fruit from rapid ageing". Rather, the wines on display will be "wines without make-up, which are rare in Baden in this form". The winegrowers therefore attach particular importance to "responsible viticulture and elaborate, intensive (hand) work in the vineyard and during the harvest". They also attached great importance to "avoiding manipulation in the cellar as far as possible". Furthermore, the wineries give the wines "time to become wine". For this reason, no wines from the 2016 vintage are presented on the country wine market, but only wines from previous years.
Admission costs ten euros, registration is required at www.landweinmarkt-baden.de or by e-mail to kontakt@landweinmarkt-baden.de. The Landhotel Alte Post is also offering a winegrower's menu for 105 euros including wines from the region.
(uka / Photo: German Wine Institute)