Thomas Schaffner
Founder and owner
master winemaker
I grew up in the vineyards. We almost always went into the vines with our satchels right after school.
After my apprenticeship as a vintner, I worked for two years in my parents' vintner's business, until Imaster winemakergraduated
1989 - 1991 I went with my wife Esther for 2 years to Haiti as "practical missionaries" as children's village leadersto a children's village. (At that time the working conditions were still very difficult and exhausting, so the time was only set at 2 years. Only after we were there for a while did we realize that 2 years would be difficult, it would be difficult.)more on this..
In 1991 I took over the family business of 1.5 hectares. They gave the grapes to a winery. In the same year I decided to market myself andannounced our winery.
Little by little, year by year, we have grown. We now market 8 hectares.
In 1995 we provided thatcomplete winery on organic viticulturearound.ECOVIN
My strength and love is dealing with customers and guests.
I am very happy to show our customers outside in the vineyard, for example at oursvineyard walks, with how much care we grow our grapes, we like to combine itwine tasting, through which you will understand even better what the work outside has to do with the quality in the cellar.
It's very important to meEvolution of the wines in the wine cellar. Here, of course, we also try to produce the wines as gently as possible.
Esther Schaffner
co-founder and co-owner
career changer:
I had no idea about wine, but after so many years that has changed quite a bit.
I learned to let go of my shyness, which wasn't easy for me.
I love talking to guests and customers about our wines, telling them about their taste