“California Terroir, German Excellence”, Germany

On May 8, 2017 FAS Berlin, with the U.S. Embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires, Kent Logsdon, and the Wine Institute of California hosted a wine seminar at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. Around 30 sommeliers of leading area restaurants, journalists, and culinary press participated in a tasting seminar featuring California wines with German origins, for instance many of the selected vineyards’ owners and/or founders emigrated from Germany decades and even centuries ago. This type of storytelling is well received in Berlin and helped present the interesting and varied history of California wines, which are still seen as fairly new. With Germany being the world’s largest wine importer by volume, the share of U.S. wine imported into Germany has increased over the last years. The wine event was an excellent occasion to further contribute to this increase and foster the reputation of California’s high quality wines in Germany.