BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, Aug 8 — In the Ahr valley, mud-smeared bottles rescued from flooded cellars represent hope for a new beginning after the deadly catastrophe that hit Germany three weeks ago. “I told myself we couldn’t just throw it all away,” recalls Linda Kleber, the founder of the...
BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, Aug 8 — In the Ahr valley, mud-smeared bottles rescued from flooded cellars represent hope for a new beginning after the deadly catastrophe that hit Germany three weeks ago.
The vintages that could be saved are now being offered for delivery in the condition they were found: Covered in silt, a singular reminder of the devastation the floods wreaked. All in all, last month’s disaster claimed the lives of 225 people across Europe, including 187 in Germany, and destroyed 5 to 10 per cent of the wines in Ahr.
He and his wife then took shelter upstairs, but “the water very quickly rose a metre above the first floor,” he says, still visibly affected by what happened. In the end, the couple ended up spending part of the night on the roof. It is an option the Kleber family have not thought about for an instant, even if their restaurant in the centre of Ahrweiler will not open again on the same spot.
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