Hey, we’re kara & tris!

Fellow wine nerds and founders of Whobody Wines!

Partners in life and in wine, we met and fell in love while working as harvest interns (naturally). We’ve been traveling and making wine together since…

Tristan, (Cape Town born and raised) went to school for Viticulture and Oenology even though he strictly drank brandy and coke. He is a science lover and nerd at heart, and we are thankful his taste buds have evolved.

A smiling person with curly hair and a tie-dye t-shirt scoops crushed grapes into a large fermentation tank at a winery.
Two people with gloves in black t-shirts, standing in a winery, are stomping grapes in a wooden barrel during the grape harvest process.
A person operating a cherry crusher for making grape juice or wine outdoors on a brick patio. The red machine with wooden panels is used to crush grapes, with buckets underneath to collect the juice.

Kara (Minnesota Native) was originally a photographer and graphic designer, but serendipitously fell into a job working on a vineyard in Australia. That snowballed into her love for wine and a career in the industry.

Two smiling people holding hands in a vineyard with mountains and cloudy sky in the background.
Woman harvesting white grapes in a vineyard using pruning shears with a basket of grapes nearby.
A smiling couple standing on a grassy lawn near a pond, holding wine glasses, with mountains and clear blue sky in the background.

We combined our passions, talents, and hands to create our own label, Whobody Wines.

 The foundation of the brand is built on grit and a shared love for intentional products with a memorable story.

Vintage indoor space showing a wine pressing machine, a blue and white checkered cloth on a table, a red fire hydrant, stacks of boxes, a glass of wine, and brick walls in the background.
A person filling a wine barrel with liquid using a large hose in a brewery or winery setting.
A woman with a braid hand-filling wine bottles in a South African winery setting.
A digital drawing of a rolling pin with detailed lines and shading in a dark red color on a black background.

For us, our favorite wines are always the ones with the label we can still recall, the brand’s backstory we connected with, the winemaking techniques that were different and experimental, and the beautiful setting of which is was shared.

Those are the wines we are creating. The ones you’ll remember. The ones you’ll want to drink again and share (or maybe not share).

We’re creating the wine we want to drink, and we think you’ll want to too.