The view from the vineyard down into the Nahe valley between Niederhausen and Oberhausen an der Nahe
Image: Frank Röth
The small Nahe wine-growing region has developed magnificently. This is also due to five men who meet regularly. For a wine with the “Grey Eagles”, a very special self-help group.
AWhen the “World Atlas of Wine” was published in its eighth edition in autumn 2019, the response in the world of fine wines was as enthusiastic as in 1971. At that time, a barely 30-year-old “wine writer” named Hugh Johnson had published a book, that was supposed to revolutionize the wine world. Just in the year when a new wine law in Germany rejected the idea of a wine being characterized by its origin and made “quality in the glass” absolute, the Brit took the opposite position, which was considered elitist in this country.
Johnson believed that a good wine was “geography in a bottle.” In his first “World Atlas”, Johnson illustrated the culturally-historically inspired descriptions of the most important wine-growing regions, in addition to wine labels from the leading producers and topographical maps that were unparalleled in terms of precision and clarity – and still do today.
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