Ninorta Bahno, 26, is an Aramaic Christian from Syria. She fled the civil war in 2013, arriving in the idyllic German town of Trier on the Moselle River. Bahno became three years later the first asylum-seeker to be named wine queen in Germany. Each year, local, regional and national wine queens are tasked with representing the drink. DW looks back on a tradition that has evolved over the decades.

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