Monday, 2 September 2013 | 6 to 10 pm - The Sacred and the Profane
On 2. September, the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates invites you to a special encounter between art and wine at the Gemäldegalerie of the National Museums in Berlin.
Integrated into a round of talks, performances and music, the elite of German wine will be showing some of their finest and noblest growths in the Hall of Columns.
Wine has found its way into the great works of European art history as a symbol and expression of the sacred and the profane. In the Berlin Gemäldegalerie, one of the most important collections of European painting, one can experience this directly.
But the proximity between art and wine is also evident in the way they are produced: Just as a work of art is an expression of an artist's encounter with colour and material and the result of an exploration of artistic positions and traditions, a great wine is an expression of the winemaker's encounter with nature, the vine plant and the grapes from whose juice the wine is made in a natural and artisanal way. This involves knowledge and experience on the ground of traditions that span generations. With an artist, one speaks of a sense of form and proportion. For a winemaker, it is a sense of intuition and the ability to follow the natural maturation processes of the wine and to find a balance between intervening and leaving it alone.
Great wines, like works of art, are unique, i.e. unique in their expression and unrepeatable. An ephemeral gift and testimony to this engagement that creates lasting value.
The Sacred is a dazzling concept with a wide range of meanings; it is the special, the startling and at the same time fascinating, the irrational, incomprehensible, the completely different, but also the unifying. In distinction to the profane
, the sacred marks that which is removed from everyday life, which transcends transience. Both belong to the world of wine - liturgy and festivity as well as everyday life. This is also reflected in the variety of historically grown wine types and styles, which the VDP wineries cultivate and preserve in a range from the VDP GUTSWEINEN to the VDP ORTSWEINE to the VDP GROSS GEWÄCHSEN. In the Picture Gallery, this evening offers the opportunity to see pictures in a new way and to experience wines in a different way.
Detailed information at www.vdp.de
