Robert Schlumberger von Goldeck

Robert Alwin Schlumberger, Edler von Goldeck (12 September 1814 - 13 July 1879) was an entrepreneur and the first producer of sparkling wine (German: Sekt) in Austria.

It was produced from red Blauer Portugieser grapes growing in the Goldeck vineyards in Vöslau, which Schlumberger bought in 1843, and the sparkling wine was an immediate success.

The company survived the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 and up to today, Schlumberger Wein- und Sektkellerei GmbH with its seat at Vienna-Döbling is one of the leading producers of sparkling wine in Austria.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) in a letter to his daughter Bergliot from Schwaz in Tyrol, 29 May 1894: We drank Vöslauer Schaumwein, and maybe it was time place and mood that made a difference, but the best Champagne does not suit me like this one.

[2]Vöslauer wine is also mentioned by John Galsworthy (1867–1933) in his 1926 play Escape as well as in the 1957 volume of novellas Fin de siècle by Paul Morand (1888–1976).