Burgenland has had its first wine filling station for a few days now. With this, the Polczer family is also making a statement for sustainability.
The idea is not new, but it is good: in Austria, the first wine filling station was opened in Salzburg in 2015, and in the southern countries the system has become established among winemakers and is extremely popular with vinophile customers. The winemaker couple Regine and Hans Polczer also got to know the ‘filling station’ model during their holidays in Italy and Croatia. We have been tinkering and trying things out to perfect the specially built petrol pump. For the first time in a few days, it has been possible to fill up with wine in Burgenland, on the family farm in Eisenberg an der Pinka.
There, customers can fill the bottles they brought with them or the double magnum bottles for sale on site with Blaufränkisch or the mixed set. The minimum delivery quantity is three litres. This offers numerous advantages for the entrepreneur and the customer, says Polczer: “We don’t have to print labels, fewer bottles and caps. That’s why we can offer the wine at a lower price and let people enjoy wine who might not want or even be able to spend 8 euros on a bottle of quality wine,” explains Regine Polczer. At the wine filling station, the high-quality wines can be tapped for 4 euros per litre. If stored properly, they will keep for at least a week.
The idea of sustainability is also very important to the couple. In 2021, Polczer Winery was also the first and only winery in Austria to be accepted as a member of the crowdfarming family by adopting vines.
Wine filling station open during farm sale opening hours
The wine filling station is still located on the family farm and can only be used during the winery’s opening hours. However, the long-term goal is to have a public wine filling station that operates automatically 24 hours a day: “But it still needs some time to develop.”
The wine filling station was opened by author Martina Parker, who visited the Polczer family winery for research purposes and fell in love with the red wine paste à la Regine Polczer. Incidentally, the recipe for it can be found in Parker’s latest novel, “Eindunkt”. Now you can easily tap the three liters of red wine you need yourself.
Source: Krone
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