Dorli Muhr

Katharina Muhr, raised by her aunt Barbara, returned to Rohrau in 1918 and received a 0.17 hectare vineyard parcel in Ried Roterd. This parcel provided the Muhr family with emotional connection to Prellenkirchen for sixty years. The family enjoyed harvesting and drinking wine, which filled casks and were drained at infamous ‘cellar parties’. Franz Muhr rooted the vines and left the fields fallow.

Dorli Muhr discovered her enthusiasm for wine during university studies training as an interpreter (French and Spanish), which led to her founding an agency for marketing and PR work in 1991 called Wine & Partners. This has since developed into a highly specialised business for communications involving wine, gourmet products and the culinary world. 

The desire to have her own wine production – which burned in the blood of farmers’ daughter Dorli – led ultimately to her replanting the fallow parcels on the Spitzerberg in 1995. Together with her then-husband Dirk van der Niepoort, Dorli Muhr recommenced wine production in 2002. Seeking perfection and maximum finesse, she began to acquire other parcels of vines to complement the family patch, so that the Weingut Muhr-van der Niepoort grew continually each year, in both quantity and quality. 

Ten years after Muhr and Niepoort ended their marriage, they finally concluded their business relationship. Dorli Muhr took over Dirk Niepoort’s holdings, and is carrying on with the estate under her name alone. At the same time, she was able to acquire a small, old house in Prellenkirchen and move her business headquarters there. Together with her daughter Anna, she is returning to the same village where Anna’s great-grandmother spent her childhood and teenage years.