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COMPANY PORTRAIT

The GFW WEINTEST and the Berlin-based Gesellschaft für Weinbewertung have brought new ideas and energy with their cross-medial expertise to revitalize wine grading with a focus on the consumer.

- 2012 Founding of the Gesellschaft für Weinbewertung (independent, owner-managed business)

- 2013 Revision of the wine provisions by the German Upper House of Parliament that granted non-wine-growing German states the power to issue wine quality labels

- 2014 Recognition of the GFW WEINTEST by the state of Berlin as a quality label and acceptance in the German-wide compendium of grades and quality labels

- 2015: for the first time in Germany, a quality label may be given to the category "wine-based drinks"

- 2016: additional to the quality label GFW WEINTEST,  the GFW runs the quality management system GFW QM

 

Florian Brunner (Director)

- Studies in Wine Business (Heilbronn University)

- Graduate thesis in collaboration with the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine) about international wine competitions

- Head of tasting at the Berliner Wein Trophy 2006 (ca. 300 wine samples) until 2008 (2348 wine samples)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Scheib (Chief Wine Taster)

- Wine inspector for the state of Berlin until 2014

- Over 30 years of experience in assessing and inspecting wine at all levels of sales

- Tester at various international competitions for over 20 years

- Chairman of the jury at the Berliner Wein Trophy from 1998 - 2016

- Trusted expert for regional and national media (ZDF, Sat1, RTL, RBB)