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‘The winery was my playground’: German winemaker Nik Weis, of St Urbans-Hof

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Who started the winery? “My family has been making wine for more than 200 years, but we cannot properly trace it back because there are no family records. In the early 1800s, when Napoleon conquered [the land] around the Rhine, the church records were destroyed. But my ancestors lived there before and they did agriculture in the flat lands, viticulture in the steep lands and shoemaking. During the second world war, the vineyards were abandoned but, afterwards, viti­culture started to...

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