Wednesday, 1st May 2024
Members: £42
Richard Pearey DipWSET’s next vinous travels take him to Frankfurt. Germany is most famous for the grape variety Riesling, which many people assume is unfashionably sweet. There is history behind this. German Rieslings at the end of the 19th Century were the most sought after wines in the world – they were more expensive than the greatest French Bordeaux. (Even today, the world’s most expensive white wine on release is often Egon Muller’s Scharzhofberger Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese – the 2018 is available by the bottle from Cru for a mere £15,775, and it is sweet.) Because German wine labels are extraordinarily complicated (just look at our drinking list below), people do not realise how much that has changed and how much dry Riesling, as well as wine from other grapes, is now made in Germany. Richard hopes to prove it to you, with an ambitious tasting of 12 wines, 9 of them whites, 10 of them dry and many with a pocket friendly price. No, we will not be trying the Egon Muller. In addition, because the accompanying food appeared popular at the last tasting, we will attempt to find some vaguely Germanic fare to accompany our hydration.
As usual the venue will be revealed to those who have purchased a ticket. But as many of you know it is very close to Green Park.
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About your host
Richard Pearey, Chairman of the Society, has been passionate about wine from an embarrassingly early age. He began creating a cellar in 1984 and despite (or perhaps because of) a long career in advertising, film and sports marketing, then men’s luxury shirts, has been drinking steadily ever since. His addiction to the grape has led many of his friends to hand over their wine cellars to his care. He has organised and hosted wine evenings as corporate or staff entertainment for city firms, marketing agencies and private clients, from 8 to 200 people. He has run a wine course for friends, his own wine club – Who Nose – since 1985 and his old school dining society, the oldest in the world, for 23 years. He co-founded a wine event company, We Don’t Spit, in 2013 and learned to spit, at which point he began his official wine qualifications. He completed his Diploma in lockdown and works part time in Hedonism Wine in Mayfair , whilst now pursuing his ultimate dream of becoming a Master of Wine, of which there are still only 425 in the world. Part of this 3-5 year course involves blind tasting 24 wines from anywhere in the world. So he is hoping tasting with Society Members will help!
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