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Andy Mann was born in 1990. The winery is located in Eckelsheim, a small village with a population of about 450 people in the southwest of Rheinhessen, near the border with the neighboring wine-producing region of Nahe to the west. His family runs a multi-farming farm that dates back 300 years, and in addition to grape growing, they have also grown grains and vegetables and raised livestock for generations. Winemaking has been the focus of his family since his father's generation, and they currently have 10 hectares of land.

Andy Mann, who was born and raised here, has been helping his father with farm work and winemaking since he was a child, but he wasn't actually interested in winemaking in his teens. After graduating from high school, he joined the German Army for nine months for military service, and after completing his military service, he studied business administration at university. During this time as a student, he realized that working for a large company might not be what he wanted to do in life. At the same time, his friends and acquaintances were very interested in his parents' winery and how he spent his childhood there. After graduating from high school, he spent this time away from his parents' home, thinking about his parents' home, his father's work, and the farming that had been passed down for generations, and it didn't take long for him to decide to return to his parents' home and pursue winemaking.

He then spent four years studying winemaking at the world-renowned Geisenheim University. He was very lucky to meet such ambitious friends.
Living under the same roof and learning from them had a huge impact on his life and the direction of winemaking (one of them was Martin Werner, also from Rheinhessen). As he was nearing graduation, he discovered that the wine cellar in their room was filled with natural wines from all over the world, and this made him feel like he had found the path he really wanted to take. Even while he was still a student in 2015, he found the time to return to his parents' home and actually start making natural wine outside of his studies. His first vintage was in 2015.

In 2017, he graduated from Geisenheim and took over his family business, deciding to make only natural wine. At first glance, he seems like a cool, nice guy, but in fact he is really cheerful, lively, intelligent and kind. That is the impression I get when I talk to him and drink wine with him. However, when he says, "I want to bottle the energy of the Rheinhessen vineyards and let people all over the world taste it. The first step to that is to observe and understand the vineyards carefully, and it is important to find and understand the individuality of the vineyards, and to become friends with the vineyards," another hot side of him emerges as he begins to talk about soil and nature. He says that the vineyards will teach him how to interact with the grapes and all the necessary measures. He says that the most important thing in making wine is to maximize the biodiversity of the soil and create a vineyard full of greenery and microorganisms. He says that this is the only and most straightforward way to truly express the individuality of the grapes themselves. He says that this is the only way to make sparkling natural wines without additives and with minimal use of antioxidants.

Andy Mann believes that the biodiversity and natural cycles of the vineyards are hints for enriching our lives, and that they should also apply to human life, making us happy. All of this has been taught to him by the vineyards, and he says he wants to express that spirit in the wines he makes from now on, and bring a little happiness to everyone. That is his driving force and the reason he stands in the vineyards.