Mandy Gieler ( Großgarten; born 14 October 1987) from the German wine region of Ahr was chosen as the 62nd

German Wine Queen The German Wine Queen (german: Deutsche Weinkönigin) is the representative of the German wine industry. The Wine Queen is supported by two princesses, forming together the German Wine Ambassadors. She is elected, usually in the Palatine town ...

in October 2010 in the town of

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, as the successor to Sonja Christ from the

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Family

Mandy Gieler was born on 14 October 1987 in Dernau and comes from a family that who have worked in viticulture for several generations as a secondary occupation. The family vineyard has an area of one hectare and is mainly stocked with

pinot noir Pinot Noir () is a red-wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. The name may also refer to wines created predominantly from pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French language, French words for ''pine'' and ''black.' ...

(''Spätburgunder'').

Education and training

From 1994 to 1998, Mandy Gieler went to St. Martin's Primary School in Dernau and then, from 2007, to the private grammar school of the Ursulines, the Calvarienberg, in

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German States of Germany, Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the Capital (political), capital of the Ahrweiler (district), Ahrweiler district. The Bundesautobahn 61, A61 motorway conne ...

. In the winter semester of 2007, she began studying

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

with materials science at the

Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (BRSU) The Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences is a German university of applied sciences with more than 9,500 students and 150 professors. Its campus comprises three distinct locations, situated in Sankt Augustin, Rheinbach and H ...

, which she interrupted during her time as a wine queen. Immediately after the end of her "reign" she resumed studies in October 2011 at the University of Münster with the aim of completing her master's degree in industrial chemistry.

Wine queen

Gieler was elected as the

Ahr Wine Queen The Ahr Wine Queen (german: Ahr-Weinkönigin) is a young woman from the German wine region of Ahr in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) ...

for 2009–2010 before being selected as the

. The German Wine Princesses during her twelve-month reign were Katja Bohnert ( Baden) and Melanie Unsleber ( Franconia).

References

External links

''The Finale – The Coronation of the 62nd German Wine Queen''
SWR Television, broadcast on Fri 8 October 2010
Die Homepage der Deutschen Weinkönigin
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