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This is the Eckert family’s vineyard in the village.
Definitely newcomers.
A mere 9 generations of vintners.
Only been here since 1696.
The Franciscan nunnery had been gone 150 years by the time they turned up, for goodness sake! The Romans hadn’t been seen in 1500 years or so.
But we’re pretty happy to have them here.
Good wines (more gold medals than you can poke a stick at), Volker and Inge are just the nicest people and they put on pretty good concerts in their courtyard.
And they’re doing a pretty good job for sustainability and in ensuring that we’ll have something to drink further on down the road, by training 41 young vintners since 1997.
Here’s the website.
And if you want to have some fun, click on “Die Eckerts” and click on Volker’s head on the picture to bring up the family tree. Now click on the names of the last 4 generations to see the family resemblances.
(Terrible picture of Inge, mind you. She’s much prettier than that….)
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>Newcomers LOL. I guess that’s the case. Great post.
>I really enjoyed your post today. I like the history part but then just to think about the “years” in terms of time since others lived there in the area. If I go back say two hundred years to 1807, we are in a wilderness with forest filled with wild animals and Native Americans here and there and everywhere along the rivers. It was a kind of primitive wilderness in those days and in some respects still is.Abraham LincolnBrookville Daily Photo