About us
Wine brought us together
We are 16 wine enthusiasts. What connects us is our curiosity about wine and about the people who make it.
Inka, Peter, Annette, Eiko, Tina, Gerd, Elisabeth, Michael, Sandra, Ralf, Brigitta, Bernd, Silke, Andi, Angela and Ede
How it all began
The name came first. At the end of the 80s, at a private wine tasting, one of us said after the fifteenth wine: “We really are a proper drinking sports group.” The name was a joke, and it has stuck.
We have existed as a group since 1992. Many of us got to know each other at the wine seminars of the Hanglage in Rüsselsheim. For a long time we met for wine tastings at one or another of our homes. In 2007 the idea came up to travel together to the wineries themselves, and a year later we set off for the Palatinate.
Late 80s
The name is born at a private wine tasting
1992
Founding of the Trinksportgruppe
2008
First wine trip, to the Palatinate
2026
Wine trip to the Kamptal
What we bring along
- Many years of wine seminars, joint tastings and trips to wineries in Germany and Europe.
- Our own cellars, some with more than a thousand bottles.
- Professional closeness to wine: some of us work in the wine trade and in a vinotheque.
- Respect for the work in the vineyard and in the cellar, because we know it from many visits.
Wine belongs at the table
For us, cuisine and wine belong together. On every trip we look for restaurants with regional cuisine and a good wine list, in order to experience the wines where they belong.
Wine dinners
Between the trips we meet regularly at Annette and Eiko's for wine dinners. We cook together and taste wines, everyone brings food or wine along.
