Knoll‘s wine power women: Julia Klüber „lives wine passionately“

The well-known Bavarian restaurant proprietor and wine fan Christian Grainer ("Christians" in Kirchdorf) is basically to blame for all of it. Back in 2001 at a rare tasting, he gave the young Julia, who comes from a wine-loving family, the chance to taste ripe Riesling and Grüner Veltliner wines from Wachau as well as Bordeaux. "That was what totally got me into drinking wine", remembers the now 31-year-old woman".

Today it is her job to convince others of her love for wine. For the second time there will be a very extraordinary wine party in Munich: The WineVibes volume 2 will take part in the ARS24 studio, Kistlerhofstrasse , on February 18. Julia Klüber is promising a "gigantic location on two levels", ideal for "noble wines and nice sounds in a suiting combination". (For more information see TIP).

The event will begin at 7:00 PM with an easy-going tasting, which will include vintner personalities as well as hopeful newcomers from Germany, Austria, France and Italy. After the first 3 hours or so, there will be a long club night with hot music that fits the title - "Vibes". There will be something for everyone: Good moods, atmosphere, vibration and waves. Once the music starts, the wine bar will be open and will offer dancers the perfect surroundings.

The Munich native has a target group of young, wine-interested folks but also someone else: "My uncle Wolfgang was at the first event and he was a proud 82 years old", says the blond. "But soon after midnight it got a little too loud for him". Julia Klüber organizes these wine parties because they're fun. She wants them to take place in Berlin and Vienna as well and hopes to reach a volume 12 or 13 sometime in the future.  The vintners only play a small amount and the tickets don't really bring in a lot of money. She barely has enough to pay for the location and other expenses. She does not charge for the time she invests. "The first event left me with about 8.98 euro before taxes", she reveals. However, she got plenty of compliments after the Munich event in November.

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"Vibes" means action, mood swing, atmosphere, vibration, swinging

Austria's wine lady (Wine & partners) and vintner Dorli Muhr from Vienna stated "she has a very high-class and young clientel". "This was a great success and a real highlight", Theresa Breuer from Rüdesheim says. However, Julia Klüber needs to make some money to pay her bills. She works as a wine and marketing consultant and helps many companies, vintners, wineries and restaurant proprietors with questions and develops ideas and individual solutions for them. With all her charm, she supports their wine sales and also has a lot of success with her personality at seminars.

She learned all that from her first intense wine experience in the "Christians", which opened "a gate to the wonderful world of wine" for her. That is when she decided to study viticulture in Geisenheim. After her graduation, she tookt he very important step to get her "Master of Wine" and received the WSET Diploma in Wines and Spirits in 2007. Furthermore, she spent some time working at the renowned wineries Franz Hirtzberger and Roman  Jäger in  Wachau, Zind-Humbrecht in the Alsace and winery Krone in the Rhinegau. Her professional career started in the sales and marketing department of Mövenpick, after which she switched to working at Segnitz as the Director of Sales and Product Management.

After that she decided to become self-employed. The basis for that came from a healthy self-confidence and years of useful contacts in the business. She is often up and about to find new trends. Since fall of 2011 she has been returning to her old college city Geisenheim, where she acts as lecturer and prepares junior sommeliers for the German wine and sommelier school. Besides the Grande Nation Bordeaux,  Rhône and the Alsace, her favorite regions are the  Champagne, as well as Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. „I live and love what I do“, she ensures without any doubt.

Her boyfriend also loves viticulture. Her second "boyfriend", however, doesn't. If Julia needs a break she travels to Lake Chiemsee and rides her horse Stanley. However, she can never really take a break. When the author of this article called her on her cell phone with another question, she was on her horse. One better not ask about speaker function on that horse... (r.knoll)