"We sat on the roof all night, in the dark, it smelled of diesel, and every two minutes you could hear the bumps when a car or another heavy object crashed into a wall of a house somewhere in the neighbourhood." This is how Paul Schumacher from Marienthal remembers the night of the flood from Wednesday to Thursday the week before last. On his website, the winemaker put his few rescued bottles up for sale with the stark statement "perhaps this will be the last vintage of the Paul Schumacher winery."