Discovery

What is a winemaking cooperative?

by Bestheim

Published on 09.30.2020

Bestheim is a cooperative winery, the result of successive mergers between five Alsatian wineries: Bennwihr, Westhalten, Obernai, Sigolsheim, and Kientzheim-Kaysersberg. Today, Bestheim brings together 325 families of cooperative members. But what is a cooperative winery? Who are these people called "cooperators"? And what are our values?

We explore this topic in this episodeof EXTRA BRUT, oureducational web series about wine, with food and wine critic Nicolas Rieffel. The goal: to answer in record time all the questions you've ever asked yourself about wine...

Answers provided by the "Chasseurs de Lune" (Moon Hunters), members and employees of the Bestheim winery.