Riesling Grauburgunder

Andy Mann was born in 1990. The winery is located in Eckelsheim, a small village with a population of about 450 people, southwest of Rheinhessen and close to the border with the neighboring wine producing region Nahe to the west. My parents' family has been on a complex farm for 300 years, and in addition to growing grapes, they have also grown grain and vegetables and carried out livestock farming for generations. The focus has been on winemaking since his father's generation, and the vineyard currently covers 10ha.

Born and raised in this area, Andy Mann has been helping his father work in the fields and make wine since he was a child, but as a young teenager he had no interest in making wine, and after graduating from high school he enlisted in the military. For this reason, he joined the German Army for nine months, and after completing his military service, he went to university to study business administration. During this student period, I realized that working for a large company might not be what I wanted to do in life. At the same time, friends and acquaintances were very interested in learning about his family's winery and how he spent his childhood there. After graduating from high school, during this time away from my parents' home, I began to think about my parents' home, my father's work, and the farming that had been going on for generations, and it didn't take long before I decided to return home and pursue a career in wine making. did.

After that, he spent four years studying winemaking at the world-renowned University of Geisenheim. He was very lucky to have met friends with high aspirations.
Being able to live and learn from them under the same roof had a huge impact on his life and direction in winemaking (one of them being Martin Werner from Rheinhesse). When he was about to graduate, the wine cellar in the room they lived in was filled with natural wines from all over the world, and that fact made him feel like he had found the path he really wanted to pursue. Even in 2015, while still a student, he found time to return to his parents' home and actually started making natural wine apart from his studies. His 1st vintage is 2015.

In 2017, I graduated from Geisenheim, decided to make only natural wine, and took over the family home. At first glance, he seems like a cool and nice guy, but in reality, he's really cheerful, lively, intelligent, and kind, which is what you get when you talk to him and drink wine with him. I want people all over the world to experience it. The first step to this is to carefully observe and understand the field, to find and understand the uniqueness of the field, and to become friends with the field. ' When he starts talking about soil and nature, another hot side comes out. It is said that the vineyard will tell you everything about how to interact with the grapes and all the necessary measures. The most important thing in making wine is to maximize the biodiversity of the soil and create fields full of greenery and microorganisms. It is said that this is the only and straight path to truly express the individuality of the grapes themselves. This is the only way to create sparkling natural wine without additives and with reduced use of antioxidants.

Andy Mann believes that the biodiversity and natural circulation of fields can be a hint to enriching our own lives, and that they should also apply to human life, and that they should make humans happy as well. He says that the vineyard has taught him all of these things, and that he hopes to express that spirit in the wine he makes from now on and bring a little bit of happiness to everyone. That is his driving force and the reason he stands in the field.