When the “Julika” was still the star: historical photo of the business at the bowl basket.
© Kalbhenn / Repro: Kuzaj
Bremen – It is one of the traditional addresses in downtown Bremen. A house that has reinvented itself again and again without losing its unmistakable character – you have always found a taste for enjoyment here. And now the Bremen wine and spirits store Julius Kalbhenn in a bowl basket is 100 years old. As the third generation owner, Tim Kalbhenn runs the business today.
When his grandfather Julius saw the chance to start his own business a few years after the end of the First World War self-employed the trained chemist seized it. From the beginning, the parent company was with his Office Charme on the bowl basket. In the first decades, however, it was not about wine, gin & Co .; instead coined Tobacco products the offer. The (male) people of Bremen liked to smoke Cigars. At Kalbhenn – not too far from the town hall – they were there, and it wasn’t just the senators who took action.
Three generations: Tim (left) and Jürgen Kalbhenn with one
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Especially Julius Kalbhenn Specialties had to offer. It became almost legendary „Julika“, which Kalbhenn rolled by hand for his customers – a cigar that bore the chef’s name in abbreviated form. Because of the American tobacco trade embargo, im second World War, in whose bombing nights the business was spared from destruction, for the first time spirits the way into the assortment. Now the one bottled by Kalbhenn himself Rum legendary.
Personal contact with top winemakers
The spirits stayed in the program. In the early 1960s, however, the founder’s health was so badly damaged that his son Jürgen Kalbhenn 1964 had to take the helm in hand. The learned one Coffee merchant completely expanded the range little by little Wines and spirits around. He relied on direct Contact to winemakers and distilleries, to top international wineries from Bordeaux to overseas. Top vintners from Germany are also represented at the bowl basket, just an example Markus Schneider (“Origin”) from Ellerstadt in the Palatinate mentioned.
“A lot has changed for us over time, but the meaning of consultation and trust Not. We know almost all of the winemakers we work with personally, ”says Tim Kalbhennwho entered the business in 2003 and continues to drive its constant change – for example with his own (and thus: trend-oriented regional) Gin brand (“Mitnig”). And with the one that opened in 2009 Subsidiary company on Carsten-Dreßler-Strasse in Bremen-Arsten. “We are long established, but not out of dust, ”says Tim Kalbhenn.
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