Wein Goutte

Wein Goutte
Emily Campeau & Christoph Müller
Willanzheim, Franken, Germany

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Emily Campeau and Christoph Müller were originally chefs, working in kitchens across Paris, Switzerland, Germany and NYC before leaving their cooking careers behind in favour of wine. Emily became the wine director at Restaurant Candide in Quebec and Christoph studied oenology and viticulture in Neustadt, before moving to Austria to join the team at Weingut Weninger. It was here the pair met and fell in love during the hot harvest of 2018, passionate about wine, food, farming, and each other.

They settled in Hüttenheim, Franconia, in the winter of 2021, and now tend just over four hectares of vines which, unusually for the region, have been farmed organically since 1991. Varieties include Silvaner, Pinot Meunier, Bacchus, Müller-Thurgau, Weißburgunder, Regent and Johanniter, and a third of the vines are fungus-resistant grapes known as PIWI from the German ‘Pilzwiderstandsfähige Rebsorten’.

Good food is a constant at Wein Goutte. The huge garden they planted on arrival provides a steady flow of vegetables, fruit and herbs, eaten fresh and preserved for the winter months. There is always work to be done, and at harvest it’s not only grapes arriving in the yard but a colourful assortment of chilies, tomatoes, alliums, brassicas, and more. 

Herbs from the garden are combined with botanicals, flowers, and grape distil from their own wines, to make small batches of vermouth  — the happy result of a personal desire for high quality vermouth, best enjoyed with a large ice cube.

Occasionally, they also make cider, in 2021 with apples from the trees dotted across their land, and in 2022, due to extreme heatwaves and drought in Franken, from apples that Christoph’s brother brought from his property in Württemberg.