Wine Princesses during her twelve-month reign were Christl Schäfer (Württemberg) and Isabell Kindle (Baden). She is Germany's 61st Wine Queen.[1][2]
Sonja Christ was born on 1 October 1984 in
innkeeping family. Her father, Alfred, is a restaurateur, and her mother, Gabriele, runs the family vineyard. Until a few years ago she was the fifth generation of her family to run an inn. In 2004/05, the vintner's daughter became the wine queen of her local village of Oberfell.[3] In 2008 she became the Moselle Wine Queen.[3]
Following her
ESC Grenoble (France) graduating with a business diploma. As well as her native language of German, she also speaks fluent English, French and Italian. Since Feb 2009 she has worked as a head wine taster at the wine magazine selection in Mainz. Following her appointment as the German Wine Queen she became the ambassador of German wine-growers and their products in a programme of 250 appearances in Germany and abroad during the year that followed.[2]
Since 2018 she works as research assistant at the University of Koblenz and Landau.[4] Campus Koblenz / Subject area 4: Informatik / Institute for Management[5]
