DEUTSCHLAND (Mayschoß) – He grew up in a bakery, but obviously he did not want to eat humble pie, and actually he wanted to be a tax consultant. But then, in the 1970ies, Wolfgang Hehle met in Mayschoß in the Ahr valley a vintner’s daughter named Hella, who got him to like wine. Alfred Cossmann, her father, also influenced him “by clever diplomacy” (as Wolfgang Hehle often told) so that the young man could be very enthusiastic for the work in the vineyards and in the cellar. He put his plans to be a tax consultant behind, first passed the exam to be an assistant and finally, in 1982, at the age of 26, he became a master vintner, five years after he had married into the Deutzerhof wine estate in Mayschoß.
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