Board meetings, workshops, team seminars and talks for up to 25 people at flexible tables, or 40 in rows, take place in the meeting room of Weingut Abril. The organic winery stands among the vineyards of Bischoffingen, part of Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl in southern Baden, and combines a modern meeting room with in-house catering, its wine lounge and a list of team activities in the region.
Seminars and company events
The winery presents its meeting offer under the name Tagen im Weinberg, meeting in the vineyard. A dedicated contact plans each meeting to the client's wishes, and three day packages, named Frucht, Stein and Zeit after the winery's own wine classification, cover technology, drinks, coffee and tea, snack breaks and, in the two larger packages, a lunch buffet. On request the team adds hotel stays, a wine tasting with cellar tour, team events and dinners in local restaurants. The supporting program is run only with regional partners the winery knows: a cellar tour with a tasting of three or six wines, an escape tour, guided vineyard walks, a Segway tour of the Kaiserstuhl, a herb walk, a tractor-drawn wagon ride through the Bischoffingen vineyards with a tasting, a night watchman's walk in Burkheim, city tours of Breisach and Neuf-Brisach across the French border, a walk with Bischoffingen goats and a geocaching tour.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting room measures 42 square meters, 7.50 by 6.50 meters, with daylight and a panoramic view over the vineyards, and has its own entrance from outside. It takes up to 25 people at individually arranged tables and up to 40 in blocks or rows. Equipment includes an 85-inch screen, flip chart, pin board, facilitation kit, conference folders, floor boxes for network and power, full air conditioning, dimmable lighting with color change, a sound system and free high-speed WiFi. The wide folding doors open completely onto a pergola with infrared heating and an adjustable louvered roof, and breaks can be taken on the terrace overlooking the landscape.
Accommodation
The winery is building the Rebdorf, a group of 12 guest houses at the foot of the Enselberg with a private sauna, natural pool, whirlpool and a shared house. Until it opens, the team books hotel rooms in the area for meeting groups.
Catering
The in-house catering focuses on regional produce. A meeting day can include yogurt with organic toppings and homemade spreads in the morning, a soup or salad and a seasonal Abril bowl at lunch with a glass of the winery's wine, and seasonal fruit, mini pretzels and homemade sheet cake in the afternoon. The Abril Lounge serves a regional snack menu with the winery's wines on weekdays.
History and setting
Weingut Abril farms 32 hectares of organic vineyards in top sites of the Kaiserstuhl, a volcanic massif known for its Burgundy varieties. Eva Maria Köpfer and Daniel Hank make dry wines with spontaneous fermentation and long aging, classified in three lines: Frucht, Stein and Zeit. The winery's architecture has received several awards. Regular evenings such as Freitags. Freu(n)de. Wein. bring guests to the estate through the year.
Getting there
The address is Am Enselberg 1, 79235 Vogtsburg im Kaiserstuhl, in the village of Bischoffingen.
