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Dry Rieslings Tasting

Our Recent Meeting: 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 good to you!

2011 was something of a return to normal after the big, fruity wines of 2009 and the wild and crazy wines of 2010.  Terry Theise calls it a “good guy” vintage, with delicious wines that are approachable now.

We are fortunate that DC boasts one of the best German wine retailers in the country, Phil Bernstein of MacArthur Beverages, who presented some value wines, some new wines, and all wonderful wines.

The wines we served were:

Flight #1
2011 Gysler Scheurebe HT
2011 Kruger-Rumpf Scheurebe Spaetlese

Flight #2
2011 Doennhoff Riesling Estate Qba
2011 Egon Mueller Scharzhofberger Kabinett

Flight #3
2011 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett
2011 Willi Schaefer Graacher Himmelreich Spatlese

Flight #4
2011 Schaefer Froehlich Bockenauer Felseneck Spaetlese
2011 Schaefer Froehlich Bockenauer Felseneck Spaetlese GK

Flight #5
2011 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Spaetlese
2011 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Auslese

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  • Spargelfest Dinner 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 ...
    Posted Apr 13, 2013, 3:40 PM by Alan Knapp
  • German Dry Rieslings! 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 ...
    Posted Apr 4, 2013, 9:21 AM by Alan Knapp
  • New Vintage Tasting with Phil Bernstein 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 ...
    Posted Apr 4, 2013, 9:17 AM by Alan Knapp
  • Rapturous Reds Redux 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 ...
    Posted Apr 4, 2013, 9:16 AM by Alan Knapp
  • Annual Membership Meeting 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 ...
    Posted Apr 4, 2013, 9:14 AM by Alan Knapp
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