Lena Endesfelder
Lena Endesfelder, born on 30 December 1992, comes from Mehring in the Moselle wine region of Rhineland-Palatinate. She was the German Wine Queen for 2016/2017, the 68th person to hold the title. She was elected in Mainz in 2016, succeeding Josefine Schlumberger. She is the 12th German Wine Queen from the Moselle region and the third from Mehring.
The two Wine Princesses for the year were Christina Schneider from Nordheim (Franconia) and Mara Walz from Ensingen (Württemberg). The coronation ceremony that year took place in Mainz to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Rhenish Hesse wine region, instead of the usual Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
Endesfelder lives in Mehring, where she grew up. She runs the family vineyard with her mother and sister; the vineyard has been in the family for three generations. She studied viticulture and oenology at Hochschule Geisenheim and earned a Bachelor of Science degree.
In the 2016 final, she stood out for her confident presentation. She showed she had strength for steep vineyards and described a wine with a bouquet of grapefruit, mango and peach, even though she briefly mistook a wine (riesling instead of pinot blanc). Her comments impressed the jury.
She is a member of the Mehring Vintner's Dancing Group. The previous year, she was elected Moselle Wine Queen on 11 September 2015 after serving as the local wine queen in Mehring and on the Roman Wine Road.
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