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Wines of Germany is meeting the needs of busy sommeliers with breakfast tastings, trips to Germany and a bi-monthly email newsletter.
Read below for the different activities that you can get involved in, or to speak to someone at Wines of Germany contact Alicia Mellish by email: alicia.mellish@phippspr.co.uk or telephone: 020 7759 7405.
Register to recieve the bi-monthly 'Sixty Second Sommelier Update' - an informative and interactive newsletter.
Find out about the latest exclusive trips for sommeliers to Germany’s leading wine fairs and winegrowing regions.
Learn about our forthcoming events and tastings which will showcase some of Germany’s finest wines.
Find out more detailed information about German wine producers and German wines in UK restaurants
Find out more about one of your colleague's favourite German wines in the current sommelier profile
Learn who is supplying German wine to the on trade with our on trade supplier profile
Link to other useful sites for sommeliers as well as read some of the recommended food and German wine matches from some of your peers in the industry.
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Trips
Wines of Germany regularly organises trips to Germany for sommeliers. If you would like to visit Germany’s winegrowing producers let us know and we will keep you updated.
Previous trips have included visits to the Mainzer Weinbörse, a prestigious German wine fair, as well as a culinary workshop in the Rheingau and visits to some of Germany’s most renowned wineries including Horst Sauer, Loosen, Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt and Adelmann.
If you are interested in attending trips organised by Wines of Germany let us know simply click here:
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SOMMELIER TRIP 2009 (24-29 April)
Wines of Germany invited 11 UK sommeliers to join the first ‘Sommelier Spring Class’ held at Geisenheim Research Institute on 25 April
11 sommeliers visited wineries in the Mosel and Ahr valleys, and attended a specially organised workshop at Geisenheim with sommeliers and Masters of Wine from all over the globe. Following the workshop, MWs and sommeliers had an opportunity to participate in two other annual German wine events: the Wine Ball in Wiesbaden’s illustrious Kurhaus and the Mainzer Weinbörse trade fair – both of which were successfully organized by the VDP (Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter, or the “Prädikat Wine Estates”)
The sommeliers represented some of the best venues in the UK, including The Fat Duck, La Trompette, The Crown at Whitebrook, Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle, The Orient Express, Grosvenor House and Prestonfield.
The group of sommeliers and MWs at Geisenheim for the international Sommelier Spring Class, 24-28 April 2009.
For more information on sommelier trips please contact Natalie Potts on 020 7759 7405.
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Tastings
2009 Sommelier Breakfast Tastings
Wednesday 17 June
Corrigan's Mayfair
Join Wines of Germany for a tasting of delicious Pinot wines at Corrigan's Mayfair on Wednesday 17 June. Speakers include Helmut Solter of Sekthaus Solter and on-trade supplier representatives.
To RSVP, please send an email to gwis@phippspr.co.uk
2008 Sommelier Breakfast Tasting held at Le Pont de la Tour
During last year's Sommelier Breakfast Tasting series, we offered the chance for two attendees to win a place on a WSET Advanced course. One of the winners, Rostislav Petrov of Corks Wines, recently took his exam and passed with distinction. Well done Rostislav!
Should you be organising an event that you would like posted on our trade events page, please contact the WInes of Germany team by email at: gwis@phippspr.co.uk.
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Useful Links
Wines of Germany works closely with the following organisations:
The Academy of Food & Wine Service
Founded in 1988, the Academy of Food and Wine Service is the industry’s professional training body, dedicated to improving the basic knowledge of all restaurant staff, incorporating bar skills, wine service and food service.
The Sommelier Cru
Sommelier Cru is a professional organisation of sommeliers owned by UK sommeliers, which organises tastings and events.
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Food and German wine matches
German wine, in particular German Riesling, is renowned for its ability to match with a variety of foods from spicy Asian and Fusion foods to rich creamy sauces. Here’s some of the recommendations that sommeliers who applied for the Academy of Food and Wine Services German Travel Scholarship 2008 made:
2005 Muskateller Kabinett "Ihringer Winklerberg" Weingut Dr. Heger, Baden The Wine Barn Tel: 01256 391211 Recommended retail price: £18.69
Recommended by: Robert Giorgione, Orrerry, London Recommended food match: Assiete of asparagus with summer truffles
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2006 Riesling “Unplugged” dry
Weingut Tesch, Nahe
http://www.vivinum.co.uk
Recommended retail price: £7.04
Recommended by: Michael Raebel, Pearl Restaurant, London
Recommended food match: Langoustines lightly cooked and cured with ribbons of mango and avocado, baby cucumber, baby squid tempura with curry powder, shizo cress, minzuna cress, sliced radish, pieces of mangosteen, langostine consomee, langostine oil and lemon juice.
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1999 Ruppertsberger Gaisböhl Riesling Spätlese Weingut Bürklin-Wolf, Pfalz Jeroboam Tel: 020 7288 8850 Recommended retail price: £23.25
Recommended by: Simone Sylvestre, London Recommended food match: Crispy pork belly, steamed langoustines, caramelized apple and vanilla emulsion.
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2005 Dernauer Pfarrwingert Spätburgunder QbA Weingut Meyer-Näkel, Ahr The Wine Barn Tel: 01256 391211 Recommended retail price: £41
Recommended by: Remi Cousin, The Fat Duck, Buckinghamshire Recommended food match: Best end of lamb, ice-filtered lamb jelly, braised tongue and cucumber, onion and thyme fluid gel, hot pot of lamb neck, sweetbread and oyster. |
2000 Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett
Weingut Egon Müller, Mosel
O W Loeb Tel: 020 7234 0385
Recommended retail price: £20.56
Recommended by: Iris Minling Liu, Hotel du Vin Cheltenham, Cheltenham
Recommended food match: smoked trout with cucumber, radish and watercress. |
2007 Scheurebe trocken
Weingut Wittmann, Rheinhessen
The Wine Barn Tel: 01256 391211 Recommended retail price: £9.10
Recommended by: Michael Raebel, Pearl Restaurant, London
Recommended food match: Char grilled sea bass, pink fir apple potatoes wrapped in Parma ham, anchovy beignet, tiger tomato confit, croutons with sea bass tatare, black olive oil, green beans and quail eggs. |
2004 Ihringer Winklerberg Weißburgunder Spätlese dry
Weingut Dr. Heger, Baden
The Wine Barn Tel: 01256 391211
Recommended retail price: £17.35
Recommended by: Yohann Jousselin, Hotel du Vin, Winchester
Recommended food match: Fillet of red mullet, wilted spinach and lobster sauce.
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2002 Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Eiswein Fuder 211
C. von Schubert'sche Schloßkellerei, Mosel Justerini & Brooks Tel: 020 7484 6400
Recommended retail price: £155.31
Recommended by: Jerome Chevet, The Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle, Dornoch/ Sutherland
Recommended food match: Lemon tart with Achmore crème fraiche sorbet
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