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Meyer-Näkel goes global
The wine estate of Meyer-Näkel, tucked away in the narrow Ahr valley, goes back a long way. It was founded in 1870 by the Meyer family, but it wasn’t until 1950, when Willibald Näkel, himself a winemaker, married one of the Meyer daughters, Paula, and they formed the Meyer-Näkel estate. His son Werner started off his working life as a grammar school maths teacher and sports coach. In 1982 he took a year’s unpaid leave to help his father out; he never left. Werner's daughter smiles wryly and says he found grapes easier to educate than children. In 1983 he took over winemaking from his father, gradually increasing the 1.5 ha of...
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