Our wine philosophy
Selected wines
Wine is an important part of a pleasureable life. For us it is a nice and challenging task to select the wines for our wine menu. Each wine is there for a reason and we all tested them ourselves - something we did with a lot of self-sacrifice ;-) No worries we do not expect your pity, we gladly did this for you.
The most important part of our wine menu are the German wines. In the past their reputation was quite bad, meanwhile German wines are excellent. We tried to have examples of all big wine areas for you to taste. We completed our porfolio with alpine wines from Italy and some international wines which are strong and full of character.
Wine selection Vineyard
Each wine is on our menu for a special reason and has been thoroughly tested - a task to which we have devoted ourselves with self-sacrifice - but we do not expect pity - we gladly take it upon ourselves for our guests. Cheers!
- The Gross family
A small selection
All our wines are vintage wines (if not noted differently).
- Virginia "Erste Trauben": € 34,-; Sauvignon blanc, dry, 13 % Vol., Privatkellerei Hirsch
- Justinus K: € 34,-; Justinus K, dry, 14 % Vol., Staatsweingut Weinsberg
- Korber Berg Goldadler: € 47,- ; Pinot gris, dry, 13,5 % Vol., Weingut Zimmerle
- Grüner Veltliner “Edition PAULA BOSCH”: € 49,00, Grüner Veltliner, 13 % Vol., dry, Bernhard OTT
- Rosé Saignée: 34,-; Lemberger, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir, 13,5%, dry, Privatkellerei Hirsch, Leingarten
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Dreiviertel Lemberger Rosé: € 32,00, Lemberger Rosé, semi-dry, 10,5% Vol., Weingärtner Cleebronn & Güglingen, Württemberg
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Meersburger Bengel: € 33,00, Pino Noir, Weißherbst, dry, 12,5 % Vol., Staatsweingut Meersburg, Baden
Winners:
- Trollinger Alte Reben: € 35,00; Trollinger, dry, 12,5% % Vol., Wachtstetter
- Untertürkheimer Gips, Marienglas (Württemberg): € 60,-; Pino Noir, dry 13% Vol., "Großes Gewächs", Weingut Aldinger:
- Syrah Hades: € 49,-; Syrah, dry, 13 % Vol., Staatl. Weingut Weinsberg
- Merlot Grossheppacher Steingrüble: € 38,00; Merlot, dry, 13,5 % Vol., Weingut Bernhard Ellwanger, Weinstadt-Großheppach
ITALY
2017 Brunello di Montalcino “Castello Banfi”: € 65,- ; Sangiovese, dry, 14,5% Vol., DOCG, Catello Banfi
2013 Messorio, Le Macchiole: € 450,- ; Merlot, dry, 15 % Vol., Le Macchiole, Toscana
FRANCE
2012 Château Moulin Haut-Laroque: € 119,-; Cuvée, dry, 14% Vol., Château Haut-Laroque, Fronsac
2011 Clos de la Roche: € 1100,-; Pinot noir, dry, 13,5 % Vol., Armand Rousseau
SPAIN
SPECIAL WINES
Château Le Bon Pasteur 2015 € 169,-, 14,5 % Vol., Pomerol, Bordeaux
Ornellaia 2018 € 399,-; 14,5% Vol., Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore, Toscana
Our vineyards
The history of wine from Bad Hindelang
Since January 2011 we are allowed to have a vineyard with 100 sqm - but only for own consumption. What started with a sponaneous idea in the year 2008 did result in outraged authorities.
All started with 10 vines, which were planted on hotel property. We ate the grapes ourselves. This story was taken up by an Allgaeu webpage in December 2010, with a little wink: "Germany's highes vineyard is located in Bad Hindelang." A couple of weeks later we received highly offical mail. The subject was: "Hearing regarding a vineyard which is not approved". A very clever employee saw the article and noticed that our vines are not registered in their archive. The further text of the mail told us to clear the site or register it (if it is not more than 100 sqm) as hobby vineyard.
If we offered grapes or grape-products to others (even for free) this might lead to a fee or even up to three years of prison. At first we were very scared - than we decided to register our vineyard and talk about it. As people love funny little stories like this it was printed in many articles and broadcasted on radio and tv all over Germany.
Shortly after we founded an organisation of wine-growers in the Allgaeu and nominated three "Wine Queen". We are still applying to make the Allgaeu a registered wine-growing area. This is the only way to be able to give away and sell our grapes or our own wine.
By the way: We have been producing wine for a couple of years now and sell it at the hotel only. Certainly we still need to learn a lot, but it is already quite nice - and very, very rare...
