Remembering Werner Näkel - Trink Magazine
Werner Näkel, the Ahr winemaking legend at Weingut Meyer-Näkel who redefined German Pinot Noir, has passed. Written by journalist Michael Schmidt.| Trink Magazine
The quiet whirr of my high-speed German train is a soothing reminder of Europe’s classy public transit I so miss in America. I’m headed south from Frankfurt towards a gentle landscape of vineyards, orchards and villages near the Rhine River and my Jewish father’s hometown. I’m much less comfortable with the muted conversations surrounding me. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, I grew up instinctively wary of the German language and all things German. I’m on a symbolic jou...| Trink Magazine
Werner Näkel, the Ahr winemaking legend at Weingut Meyer-Näkel who redefined German Pinot Noir, has passed. Written by journalist Michael Schmidt.| Trink Magazine
Hans Ruck, 74, is fully at home in front of a stove. The German vintner, of Weingut Ruck in Iphofen, has been a serious chef for five decades, with a healthy| Trink Magazine
Much has been made of an increase in German wine exports last year. Dr. Karl Storchmann reports that the data are open to interpretation.| Trink Magazine
With the wine world at a crossroads, what can we learn from an historic club of fine wine producers that has seen it all before?| Trink Magazine
