Our next event of this fall is a tasting of German wines, primarily from the Carl Ehrhard winery in the Rheingau, but also including wines from St. Christopher in the Mosel and Josef Drathen in the Rheinhessen, presented by Maxwell Hessman. The tasting will take place on Friday, November 9 at 7:30 pm, with the […]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE GERMAN WINE SOCIETY HOLIDAY DINNER AT THE COSMOS CLUB, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018, 7 pm - 10 pmHo, Ho, Ho, German Wine Society Members and Friends of German Wines, it’s nearly time to hang the stockings and dream of nice German wine!So, please plan to attend the […]
“Location, Location, Location”That’s the most important requirement for making a good wine.This seminar and tasting by our own Annette Schiller will emphasize the utter importance of ‘location’, i.e. terroir, in the German wine landscape. Before the 1970s German vineyard maps showed 35,000 single vineyard sites. These maps go back to the mid -1800s when the […]
Prosit Neujahr! Online registration for the 2019 Members Meeting is now open! Please make reservations by February 4. This year’s membership meeting will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2019. The doors will open at 7:00 and we begin discussing business (of course mixed with a little fun) promptly at 7:30 pm. For this year’s Members Meeting, […]
Every year we host a tasting to try German wines from the new vintage, with a focus on Riesling. Our host is Phil Bernstein, General Manager of MacArthur Beverages, one of the leading retailers of German Riesling in the country. This is always one of our most popular, best attended events of the year, […]
Travel with us this April to Vienna for a sumptuous three-course luncheon and wine pairing, featuring eight premier wines from Austria, including a beereauslese with dessert. This luncheon will held be at Bazin’s on Church, in Vienna, VA. (111 Church St NW, Vienna, VA 22180). In addition to the food and wine, we will enjoy […]
(This event is fully booked. No further registration will be accepted.)The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Wine Society are pleased to co-sponsor the traditional annual GWS Spargelfest dinner at the German Embassy House on the evening of Friday, May 24, 2019. “Spargelfest” is a feast of asparagus-themed dishes, including white asparagus, paired […]
Get ready for a summer field trip! The Capital Chapter of the German Wine Society is making another visit to Otium Cellars in beautiful Loudoun County. Members may recall our summer visits there in 2016 and 2017, and our own Christian Schiller wrote about this estate in his wine blog in 2012. The German owner […]
ANNOUNCING GERMAN WINE SOCIETY OKTOBER WEINFEST IN THE MAGNIFICENT MOSEL!“Tasting a superlative Moselle can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart concerto well played, or seeing for the first time one of Breughel’s paintings.” Frank Schoonmaker, The Wines of Germany (1956). This year the German Wine Society will celebrate its annual […]
”Beyond Riesling: Germany’s Other White Wines”If you stroll through the German section at most local wine purveyors, you will be surrounded by Riesling after Riesling on the shelves. In many of these stores, you will find nothing but Rieslings. Yet Germany produces many fine white wines in addition to Riesling, wines that amply repay the […]
