Robert Schlumberger von Goldeck

Robert Alwin Schlumberger Edler von Goldeck ( born September 12, 1814 Stuttgart, † July 13, 1879 in Voeslau, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian sparkling wine producers and entrepreneurs.

Biography

Robert Schlumberger, who grew up in Stuttgart, had to discontinue his studies after the death of his father. As a merchant, he worked in the Champagne Ruinart Père et Fils winery in Reims, France, where he rose to become winemaker and production manager. On a Rhine cruise he learned the Viennese Sophie Kirchner, the daughter of a button manufacturer, know. Since her parents a move to France did not agree, Schlumberger in 1842 moved to Austria and married Sophie. With the aim to also open a sparkling wine here, he leased the manor tithe cellar in Bad Vöslau vineyards on the so-called Goldeck in Maital.

Already in the following year he specialized in sparkling wines, which he produced by the Champagne method, and so brought in Austria the first white sparkling wine on the market. As a result, bought on the basis of soil texture in Vöslau the vineyards in the vineyard Goldeggen, where the vines for the red wine, which he produced from 1844, awarded thrived. [Note 1] His wines already got 1845 both in London and at the Vienna Commercial Exhibition Awards. He received in 1854 in Munich, in 1855 in Paris, 1861 in London, 1865 in Dublin, in 1866 in Vienna More medals. 1862 came the Vöslauer Sparkling, [note 2] as the sparkling wine is now called, on the wine list of the British Queen Victoria. In Vienna, Schlumberger was to K.u.k. Hoflieferanten.

With the name Vöslauer Goldeck also a blend of him has been filed for trademark protection. It is the oldest wine brand in Austria. Schlumberger sent his Vöslauer Goldeck on the SMS Novara on test trips for export. The Vöslauer sparkling wine and even mentioned in the literature.

From his company based on which he also founded numerous branches abroad, such as in 1863 in London and 1876 in Berlin. He had offices in the United States. In his new home in Bad Vöslau Schlumberger was from 1864-1870 the mayor of the municipality. A year before his death in 1878, Schlumberger has been raised as a noble from Goldeck in the hereditary nobility.

After the death of the founder, the company was as a partnership split between his three sons: Otto Schlumberger of Goldeck ( born August 25, 1846 in Vöslau, † April 6, 1934 in Vienna), finance, procurement; Gustav Schlumberger of Goldeck ( born January 27, 1848 in Vienna, † December 25, 1921 in Vienna), sales at home and abroad, as well as Robert Schlumberger of Goldeck ( born August 27, 1850 in Vöslau, † January 12, 1939 in Vienna ), agriculture.

The Schlumberger sparkling wine in Vienna and the winery in Vöslau is now operated by Underberg AG.