The family business is located in the hamlet of Girlan in the municipality of Eppan (Cornaiano) near Bolzano in the Italian wine-growing area of South Tyrol ( Trentino-Alto Adige region). Helmuth Winkler was one of the first people in South Tyrol to found a sparkling wine cellar in 1977, which he ran successfully until 2001. In that year, the sparkling wine cellar was closed due to illness. In 2017, his son Michael Winkler and his wife Verena revived the former "Winkler sparkling wine cellar" as "Sektmanufaktur Winkler". The "Manufaktur" part of the name refers to the production methods, as everything from thinning the leaves, harvesting the grapes, remuage on the vibrating console and labelling the bottles to packaging and delivery is done by hand.
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