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...
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Friday 11 February 2011
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...
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