This year our Spargelfest wine dinner will take place at Café Berlin Tuesday, May 8. Café Berlin has been serving traditional German cuisine on Capitol Hill since 1986. It is walking distance from Union Station and occupies the ground floor of three joined townhouses as well as the accompanying outdoor Bier Garten. The chefs are German, as are […]
We will be casting off all lines and getting underway from Georgetown Harbor, just at the bottom of 31st Street NW at 7:15 PM June 24, aboard the Nightingale. We will have a few cheeses and fruits to complement our excellent cellar wines. This will be a relaxing, post-dinner cruise so we can concentrate on the wines […]
Friday, July 27, we will hold a very special evening - an exploration of the wines of Austria ... at the Austrian embassy!Working with our member Christian Schiller, Klaus Wittauer of KWSELECTION has organized this interesting and informative introduction to these wines and arranged for it to be presented at the Austrian embassy. The price […]
Friday, September 21, at 7 p.m. 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 years past, we (virtually) visited the Rheingau, Rheinhessen, and the Pfalz to celebrate and learn more about these regions' fine wines. […]
The holidays are rapidly approaching -- where does the time go? To leverage inventories currently ongoing at our favorite retailers, we have arranged a sampling of wines with a particular focus on helping you select the perfect wines for your upcoming holiday festivities. Plan on a relaxed evening Friday, November 9, starting at 7:00 p.m. Our hosts, Klaus Teuter […]
Ho Ho Ho, German Wine Society Members and Friends of German Wines, Our annual holiday paired dinner will be held Thursday, December 6, 2012, starting at 7 p.m.This year the dinner will be at the National Press Club. Also, it will be a served dinner with wines selected to pair perfectly with the courses!Read on ...The venue is […]
Prosit Neujahr! You are cordially invited to attend this year's membership meeting on Friday, February 1, at 7 p.m. There will be some very good wines from the cellar to drink with our -- by now traditional -- quiz game and cheeses and bread to go with the wines. There will also be short reports on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
