Katharina Tinnacher literally grew into the winemaking profession: Her father, a winemaker like his father, gave her five vines as a child. She was supposed to tend them independently in order to realise what that meant. As a reward, she was allowed to exchange the grapes for chewing gum.
Today, of course, it's not about the chewing gum anymore: At the age of just 27, she took over her parents' estate and has been running it with great success ever since. In the meantime, she has switched to sustainable, organic production. From foliage work and the manual removal of damaged grapes to cellar work, where she is "only a companion, because the quality is made in the vineyard," as she says.