The SEILLY family means five generations related to the wines of Alsace.

The adventure began when Edouard Seilly founded the family company in 1865. Being first a cooper he was later to become a winegrower.

His son Eugène SEILLY a winegrower but also a wine-broker and distiller, continued his work early in 1898. Leaving the centre of Obernai, he definitely set up his winery, built a cellar and bought vineyard land with suitable soils and facing sunlight. He carried out the first wine bottling operations hitherto only delivered out of barrel.

In 1930, Alphonse Seilly, son of Eugène,  with his wife Stéphanie considerably extended the surface of the winery by judiciously purchasing land suitable for vinegrowing and requiring heavy work to make it arable. He proceeded scientifically by analysing the soils and by original grafting operations in order to plant noble grape varieties. He invested everything to  a hundred percent on quality and became prominent through his spirit of innovation .

He registered a local trademark « Vin du Pistolet » (the Pistol Wine)  in 1962, the Seilly estate owning the exclusive rights of this trademark..

He created in 1970 an arched vault with a seating capacity of 100 places called today the Seilly Vault of Wine, « le Caveau du Vigneron ». It can welcome groups for commented wine tasting and accompanying Alsatian specialties.

A wine shop was set up in 1976 on the ground floor of  a small hotel held by the family and located in  a protected site right in the heart of the Obernai city centre. a typically Alsatian house dating back to the XVIIth century and called « Maison du Vin d’Obernai ». (House of the wine of Obernai)

The locality of “Schenkenberg”, gave its name to wines of reputation like Riesling or Gewurztraminer. In 1981, it loaned its name to a gourmet restaurant located on the winery site with the sign, Schenkenberg.

Jean Paul carries on the extension of the family vineyard by doubling its surface and mechanizes most of his working equipment. He becomes well known for his dynamic entrepreneurship.

In 1988 his son Marc being trained as a winegrower and oenologist consolidated the company and got busy diversifying the range of wine activities on his estate. The experience resulting from his training in Champagne led him very quickly to producing the ”Crémant d’ Alsace”, a sparkling wine which he has been marketing successfully since 1984. His travels to California and Australia nourished his ideas of developing new and more modern working tools as well for vine growing and wine making  as for management and marketing. Thus he produces wines such as « Vendanges Tardives » (Late Grape harvest)  and the «Selections de Grains Nobles» (Selections of Noble Grapes) . Pinot Noir acquired a new reputation due to Marc’s experience acquired during many wine making operations in the largest « chateaux of Bordeaux » such as Haut-Brion and Lafite-Rothschild.

He still thinks of developing many projects hoping that perhaps some day his sons Hugo and Jean will take on the torch.