Vollrath Mulled Wine

Tradition since 1855

"When it's hottest outdoors, we start to make our hottest products!" To do so, wine is imported from Italy and Spain and blueberry wine delivered from Bavaria. The wine is mixed with a liquid spice composition in 30,000 liter mixing vessels. That seems like large quantities for the ordinary consumer, but compared to other giants in the industry, that's very little. "Vollrath is a small company. We're like a small close family - and we should stay that way."
The mulled wine is nowhere near finished, the process has just begun: The mix must be tasted and adjusted, because every tank of wine tastes a little different.
Production of mulled wine goes on to mid-December, then post-production for the Christmas season begins. And then? "From March on, there's a little less to do! That's important. Then in summer we're ready to start with full power!"

Back then, when Claudia Blokesch learned that the long-established Nuremberg company "E. Vollrath & Co." was for sale, she gave up her job as a hotel manager to move into the mulled wine business. Although she had imagined another career, the trade wasn't completely new to her: Her grandparents had owned a brewery and liquor factory, her father was a distiller and wine seller. Still, running a company is a much larger undertaking. We might say that she was born with a bottle in her cradle, if that didn't sound so impolite. ;-)

In production, Claudia Blokesch has support from her sister who is a master distiller. She has never reached the point where she can't look at another cup of mulled wine. She looks forward each year to the Christmas season and the first briming mug of warm mulled wine.