Which true wine-lover hasn’t dreamed of making their own wine?
The Winemaker Experience is a hands-on project, which aims to turn wine-lovers into genuine wine-makers, each with a privately owned vineyard. Basically, what we offer is to guide participants through the full wine-production process, offering them our winery and consultancy, but encouraging them to make their very own wine, to their own preferences. This ensures that our private winemakers take their decisions based on the same information as we do, the only differences being volume, and the fact that they can do so completely care-free.
You choose the variety, you choose when to harvest, you choose the blend, basically, you choose everything.
Purchasing a vineyard parcel which is integrated into an award-winning winery is definitely a creative solution, you get a dual benefit; full control of your own wine production to whichever extent you desire, but without the responsibility of having to run a winery. The vineyard parcels are adjusted in size so that the average annual grape yield corresponds to a barrel of wine, 225 litres. This volume is the crucial point in the project, as it allows the experience to be completely care-free, as participants do not need to worry about having to sell their wine, while also being authentic.
In combination with the-buy-to-let solution of our on-site resort with holiday homes, The Vines, you could even convert this luxury pastime into a profitable investment, which would not only pay for your yearly wine production but leave in addition an interesting return. Contact us for details.
Presenting The Winemaker Experience
In this short film our founder and manager, Karl Heinz Stock, explains how the project came about and how it’s based on his own experience of transitioning from wine-lover to wine-maker.
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We would like to invite you to join our amazing group of private wine-makers in turning the dream of winemaking into a reality. Attracting clients all the way from the Swiss Alps to South Beach, Miami, the project allows wine-lovers to authentically be in control of their own production, without the stress and hassle of starting a commercial operation.
Our team will be there to guide you in each and every step of the way, both now as well as in the future. We do this to ensure that not only do you get the maximum enjoyment out of your new venture, but also so that you learn more and more about winemaking every single year.
You will have full access to all the expertise of our experienced staff, both in the vineyard (viticulture) as well as in the winery (viniculture). Each step you can freely decide how much you will be involved personally. You can be part of all facets of making your private wine or you can delegate the more mundane tasks to us.
Participating in The Winemaker Experience can even be handled remotely. Whenever you cannot be on site personally, our team will ensure that you are fully informed and in control, whether with photos, videos, WhatsApp, emails or phone calls. Even blending and tasting the wine can be done in the leisure of your home. We bottle the wine(s) manually and send the samples to you with notes and recommendations.
While the ultimate goal is to make the project affordable, we offer an option that can even make it profitable with The Vines, a small on-site resort of holiday-homes, available for purchase, which includes a turnkey buy-to-let solution.
By purchasing both a vineyard and a holiday-home, wine-lovers can get the best of both worlds, as a luxury lifestyle investment is suddenly converted into a sensible return-generating asset-based investment, without fear of inflation, and more profitable and fun than any bank investment available these days.
Whether you then consume the wine yourself, gift them as Christmas presents or share them with business contacts, what is more special than a wine that you produced and blended personally?
It would be our honour and pleasure to guide you through this adventure, which you can enjoy right away and later pass on to your children and grandchildren.
Own a Vineyard
Instead of spending millions on buying a vineyard, you can now make your very own wine without the usual logistics headaches that come with wine production, and all for a fraction of the price.
Join the other private wine-makers, and you can either choose your very own vineyard plot(s) or plant completely new vines in our available virgin plots. These are all priced from 30.000,00€ to 60.000,00€. Every plot consists of around 600m2, but many choose to acquire several of them in order to be able to make Red, White and Rosé wine. Or choose several plots in order to have more flexibility in blending different varieties.
Every plot will give you approximately 288 bottles per year of your privately labelled and blended wine. Plenty to never have to worry about X-mas presents for family and friends ever again. When buying multiple plots you can take on the challenge and even turn it into a business, by starting to sell your wine and build a small brand. For more details take a look at the brochure.
Vineyard plots are available starting at 30.000,00€. For pricing details please contact us.
Barrel Blending Experience
For those who like the idea but don’t want to wait years until you have your own wine in the bottle, we have the Barrel Blending Experience. This allows you to skip the viticulture (field) phase of the wine production cycle and take a shortcut straight to the viniculture (winery) work.
What we do is present samples of the existing unblended wines in our production, at which point you can choose whichever varieties you prefer, and make 288 bottles of your preferred blend with these wines. After which you are in control of all steps leading to the final wine, the most important one is choosing the origin of the barrel, the age of the barrel and how long your blend then ages in this barrel. For more details take a look at the brochure.
Prices: starting at 5.472,00€. For pricing details please contact us.
The room is equipped with stainless steel tanks and oak barrels exactly the right size to accommodate to each winemaker’s chosen volume of produced wine, be it one or several barrels of end product.
If at the end of the winemaking process our participants choose to store some of the bottles at our wine estate, rather than send them to their home, they can do so in the wine storage room, constructed in a way that would keep the wine at a stable temperature until it is ready to be enjoyed by the owners.
The wine tasting area is very close by, so that the way from the barrels and bottles to the place where you can comfortably enjoy the wine does not become an inconvenience.
