Welcome toEpisode 4 of TRINKTalks. Listen in as Paula and Valerie talk with Dorli Muhr ofWeingut Dorli Muhr about her wine making journey and her ongoing love affair with the Blaufrankisch grape variety of the Spitzberg in the Carinthian region of upper Austria. The vineyards are cultivated organically, and obtaining the characteristic freshness and finesse in the wine is not always easy, but Dorli’s commitment and passion to her wines becomes clear when you hear her story.
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ABOUT GUEST DORLI MUHR
Dorli Muhr discovered her passion for wine during her interpreting studies (French/Spanish). She founded a marketing and public relations agency called Wine&Partners in 1991 and thus developed a highly specialized company for communication around wine, luxury products and culinary arts.
As a farmer's daughter's longing for her own production, she ultimately replanted a fallow plot on Spitzerberg in 1995. Together with her then husband Dirk van der Niepoort, Dorli Muhr began producing wine in 2002. In search of perfection and maximum finesse, Dorli Muhr strove to acquire other plots in addition to the family vineyard, and the winery grew continuously, improving both quantitatively and qualitatively every year.
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TRINKTalks has been brought to you byTRINK Magazine, an independent quarterly digital publication exploring the “German-speaking wines” of Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
Founders Paula Redes Sidore, based in Germany, and Valerie Kathawala, in New York, were brought together by their shared love for these wines and the conviction that a deep understanding of the cultural contexts in which they are embedded is essential to appreciating them fully.
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ABOUT THE HOSTS OF TRINK TALKS
Valerie Kathawala specializes in the wine cultures, traditions, and innovations of Germany, Austria, South Tyrol, and Switzerland, as well as those closer to her home in New York City. Her work appears in the pages of Noble Rot, The Art of Eating, SevenFifty Daily, Meininger’s Wine Business International, Pipette, Glug, Pellicle and a number of other publications. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the wine magazine TRINK. She is currently at work researching and writing a new course (2025) on German wines for the Wine Scholar Guild.
Paula Redes Sidore moves smoothly between the worlds of wine and words. She is a double-certified sommelier, through the Court of Master Sommeliers and the Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, she foundedWeinstory, a creative content and translation agency dedicated to transposing the world of German-speaking wine into English. TRINK is the natural extension of that pursuit. She is the German and Austrian regional specialist for jancisrobinson.com and a member of the Circle of Wine Writers. Paula has a Masters degree in fiction writing, and her work has been featured in jr.com, Sevenfifty Daily, Feinschmecker, and Heated. She lives on the northern wall of wine growing with her family in Bonn, Germany.
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