Annual Membership Meeting

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

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 […]

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 […]

Spargelfest Dinner

Cafe Mozart 1331 H St NW, Washington, DC

We are at that time of year again for our traditional Spargelfest dinner.   This year the Spargelfest will be held at Café Mozart, a long-established German restaurant in Washington, D.C., on Friday, May 17, starting at 7 p.m.  The price for the event will be $80 for members and $90 for non-members. The Board encourages all members and friends of […]

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 […]

Holiday Dinner at Rasika in the West End

Rasika 1190 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States

खुश छुट्टियाँ That is "Happy Holidays" in Hindi, I think, which is pertinent, because ...This year the dinner will be at Rasika in the West End, Friday, December 6, 2013, starting at 7 p.m.  The address is 1190 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037.The venue is stunning.  We plan to be in a private room, the […]

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 […]