Rapturous Reds Redux

Harbor Square Party Room 500 N St SW, Washington, DC, United States

Join us Friday, February 22, at 7 p.m., as we experience "Rapturous Reds Redux" as presented by our own Michael Fritze, who has spent his time meticulously researching candidates for this tasting.  The price for this tasting is $35 for members and $42 for non-members.   It will be held at the Harbour Square Club Room.We are […]

New Vintage Tasting with Phil Bernstein

Harbor Square Party Room 500 N St SW, Washington, DC, United States

Every year we host a tasting to provide members and guests with an early opportunity to taste wines from the new vintage.  The 2011 wines are just arriving, and now is a great time to sample what is available so you can decide what to buy based on the most important information of all-- what tastes […]

German Dry Rieslings!

Harbor Square Party Room 500 N St SW, Washington, DC, United States

Riesling in general and dry Riesling in particular is not really trendy in the U.S. Yet Eric Asimov, the New York Times´ wine critic, recently detected a "rising popularity of Riesling." which, to him, signaled "the increasing sophistication of Americans who have fallen in love with wine."Our April tasting will put our love for German wines to the […]

Oktoberfest “Reverse” Tasting

Harbor Square Party Room 500 N St SW, Washington, DC, United States

Please join us Saturday, September 21, at 7 p.m. for our tasting at the Harbour Square Club Room, which provides us a stunning view of the Washington skyline. The price for this tasting is $25 for members, $32 for guests.  In years past, we (virtually) visited the Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Pfalz, and Mosel to celebrate and […]

Luxembourg Wine Tasting

Luxembourg Embassy 2200 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

We have been invited to return to the beautiful Embassy of Luxembourg on Friday, October 25, 2013 at 7 p.m. for another exciting opportunity to enjoy the wines of the “other Mosel,” the Moselle River in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.Those who attended our last tasting at the Luxembourg Embassy in March 2011 will recall […]

Oktoberfest Tasting

Harbor Square Party Room 500 N St SW, Washington, DC, United States

Please join us on Friday, October 10, at 7:30 p.m., for our Oktoberfest tasting at the Harbour Square Club Room, which provides us a stunning view of the Washington skyline. The price for this tasting is $35 for members, $42 for guests.In past years for our Oktoberfests, we virtually visited most of the wine regions […]

Janet Cam Pairing German Sekt

The Colonnade 2801 New Mexico Ave NW, DC, United States

The German Wine Society would like to invite you to a very special evening with Janet Cam, who will be pairing a delicious global array of tapas-style foods with German Sekt. The event will take place on Friday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. Janet Cam is best known as the co-proprietor of the elegant LePavillon restaurant […]

2013 Vintage Tasting with Phil Bernstein

The Colonnade 2801 New Mexico Ave NW, DC, United States

Dear Members of GWS and Guests, Since April 3 presented too much of a conflict with Good Friday and the beginning of Passover, we have moved the vintage tasting (and membership meeting) to April 10, at the same time, 7 p.m., but AT A  DIFFERENT VENUE: WE WILL NOW BE MEETING at the Colonnades, an apartment […]

Spargelfest 2015

German Embassy House 1900 Foxhall Road N.W., Washington, DC, United States

Dear German Wine Society Members and Friends of German Wine,We are at that time of year again for our traditional Spargelfest dinner. This year we have the great pleasure to announce our return to the German Embassy House, after an absence of several years while the Embassy was under renovation. We were last at the German […]

Wine Journey Down the Mosel River Valley

Harbor Square Party Room 500 N St SW, Washington, DC, United States

German Wine Society Members & Guests, Please join us Sunday, June 7, from 2 pm to 6 pm, as we experience a “Wine Journey Down the Mosel River Valley" presented by our own Michael Fritze, who has based this tasting on a recent trip to this region.Arguably the most famous Riesling growing region in Germany, […]