Julia Baltes

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Julia Bertram still as Ahr Wine Queen 2011

Julia Baltes (born Bertram ; * December 24, 1989 in Dernau ) from Dernau in the Ahr wine-growing region is a German winemaker and former German wine queen . She is the owner of the Dernau wineries Julia Bertram and Ernst Sebastian .

Life

Julia Bertram first attended the St. Martin elementary school in Dernau and subsequently the Kalvarienberg monastery high school in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler . At Kalvarienberg she also passed the Abitur , in order to complete a six-month internship in 2009 in the winery of the Dernau winemaker Werner Näkel . As part of the television program Die Ahr - Genuss am Fluss, first broadcast in 2010, from the series of the WDR travel magazine Wunderschön! In the following year she presented Stefan Pinnow as a co-moderator with Bernd Stelter , along with the daughters of Näkel, Meike and Dörte and Julia Bertram as a young winemaker.

After her internship at Näkel, Julia Bertram studied viticulture and oenology in Geisenheim until she was elected German Wine Queen . In 2012 she obtained the title of "Bachelor of Science" in this course. Originally, her goal was to follow up on her bachelor's degree in viticulture and oenology with a master's degree in international wine management, also in Geisenheim. After her tenure as German Wine Queen with 250 appointments within less than a year, which not only took her to the German wine-growing regions, but also to a wine tasting in the European Parliament , Canada or China , she stated for herself: “I have an international wine industry I did a year in practice, I don't have to study that anymore. "

From June 10, 2011 to September 2012, she was the area wine queen on the Ahr before she stood for the election of the German wine queen. On September 29, 2012, she was elected the 64th German Wine Queen in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse as the successor to Annika Strebel from the Rheinhessen wine-growing region . Natalie Henninger from Baden and Anna Hochdörffer from the Palatinate stood by her side as wine princesses during her twelve-month tenure .

As operations manager and cellar master , Julia Bertram began bottling her first wine while she was still in office as the German Wine Queen. Processing and bottling were initially carried out in the company of her future husband Benedikt Baltes, who ran the Benedikt Baltes winery in Klingenberg am Main .

Even before she got married, Julia Baltes had an excellent reputation with the winery named after her maiden name Julia Bertram, and the title of German Wine Queen also helped it to become “a kind of brand”. As a result, the name of the Julia Bertram winery stayed the same even after the marriage . The Bertram-Baltes winery emerged from the Julia Bertram and Benedikt Baltes wineries in spring 2020.

Julia Bertram and Bertram – Baltes winery

In 2014 Julia Baltes born Bertram in Dernau their first own wine line, with an acreage of initially 1.4  hectares . After taking over from her mother Andrea Bertram born. Sebastian and her aunt Ricarda Sebastian run their parents' winery Ernst Sebastian, founded in 1910 by Gottfried Sebastian in 2017, Julia Baltes currently cultivates 4.5 hectares, predominantly with the cultivation of Pinot Noir . The annual production is around 25,000 bottles. After her husband Benedikt Baltes , who came from a Mayschoss winery, sold his shares in Klingenberg and has only been there in an advisory capacity since September 1, 2019, they concentrate on the development of the Dernauer winery. The Gault & Millau Weinguide Germany 2020 lists the Julia Bertram winery with three red grapes among the best of the very good wineries in Germany. Eichelmann Germany's Wines 2020 counts the winery with 3 ½ stars among the "Outstanding Producers". In 2019 Julia Baltes converted the winery to organic farming. The company, operating under the name Weingut Bertram – Baltes since 2020, now cultivates 7 hectares.

Julia Baltes cultivates vines in various locations in the municipalities of Dernau (Burggarten, Goldkaul, Hardtberg, Pfarrwingert and Schieferlay), Mayschoß (Mönchberg) and the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. In the latter, these are the Trotzenberg in Marienthal , Kirchtürmchen and Sonnenberg in Bad Neuenahr and Daubhaus, Forstberg and Rosenthal in Ahrweiler .

Web links

Commons : Julia Bertram  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Baltes , at Deutsche Weinakademie.de, accessed on June 20, 2020.
  2. ↑ Julia Bertram, Dernau on Ahrwein.de, accessed on December 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Christine Schulze: Julia Bertram von der Ahr: 64th German Wine Queen in: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler , 71st year, ISSN  0342-5827 , p. 21 f.
  4. ↑ a b c d Julia Bertram - website , accessed on December 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ "The Oenologist" - BDO congratulates the 2012 graduates . In: German viticulture . Meininger Verlag , 2012, ISSN 0944-3177 .  
  6. ↑ Julia Bertram, Dernau - travel diary on Ahrwein.de, accessed on December 5, 2019.
  7. ↑ Klaus Angel: Julia Bertram from Dernau is 64th German Wine Queen WochenSpiegel from October 1, 2012, accessed on December 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ Andrea Simons: Julia Bertram from Dernau gets the title In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , October 1, 2012
  9. ↑ Germany's new wine queen is so beautiful . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , September 30, 2012
  10. ↑ a b Weingut Benedikt Baltes Wir-Ich , accessed on December 3, 2019; Benedikt Baltes, b. 1984 in Bonn.
  11. ↑ Weingut Benedikt Baltes , accessed on December 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ Gault & Millau Wine Guide Germany 2019 . ZS Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-89883-839-9 , p. 71 f.
  13. ^ Gerhard Eichelmann : Eichelmann Germany's Wines 2020 , mondo Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-9388-3951-5 , p. 181.
  14. ↑ a b Gault & Millau Wine Guide Germany 2020 . ZS Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-89883-956-3 , p. 75.
  15. ↑ With Baltes leaving, the winery has been operating under the name Steintal since September 1, 2019 . Steintal Winery , accessed on December 3, 2019.
  16. ^ Gerhard Eichelmann: Eichelmann Germany's Wines 2020 , mondo Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-9388-3951-5 , p. 56, and p. 181.
predecessor Office successor
Annika Strebel German Wine Queen
2012/2013 		Nadine Poss
personal data
SURNAME Baltes, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertram, Julia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German winemaker and former German Wine Queen 2012/13
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Dernau