Meissen (dpa / sn) – Saxony has a new wine queen. On Tuesday, 30-year-old Sabrina Papperitz was elected new sovereignty, as the Saxon winegrowers’ cooperative announced in the evening. The biotechnologist who works in vaccine production succeeds Nicole Richter, who represented wine from the Saxon wine-growing region for a year. Before she was allowed to put on the small gold crown decorated with grapes, Papperitz had to prove her expertise in winemaking issues in front of an expert jury and identify a type of wine in a blind tasting.
The new wine queen, who had already stood by her predecessor as wine princess, looks after a vineyard in Radebeul as a hobby winemaker. According to the cooperative, her favorite wines are Scheurebe and Schieler. Papperitz is in office until the summer of 2023. With around 500 hectares of vineyards, the Saxony wine-growing region is one of the smallest and the easternmost in Germany. Mainly white wine varieties are grown.
