Less than a fortnight to go now and it was evident at the club barbecue that our members are really looking forward to this fun day out.
We ask all who are intending to come to double-check that your name is on the attached list. If you’re not intending to come, there’s no need to read any further.
There are three sections to this newsletter – please read all of them so that you’re up with the play.
- Wairarapa Wine Trip – Timetable
- Important things to know for our Wairarapa wine tastings
- Wairarapa Wine Tasting Groups – For privacy, please see read your newsletter.
We’ve allocated the groups along the lines of the seating at our dinners. If you’d particularly like to be in another group, you’re welcome to arrange your own swap.
However, please ensure overall group numbers remain the same and let Wayne know about the change.
If anyone has any special dietary requirements for our meal at Coney’s, please email Wayne asap.
While we encourage you to only drink as much wine as you can comfortably handle, please be aware that Nga Waka, Tiwaiwaka and Grava have small cellar doors and our groups will fill their tasting rooms. If there are significant numbers of people who are skipping a tasting at any one time, we’d ask that you make way for any members of the public who want to have a tasting.
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And please also give these wineries your support – particularly Nga Waka seeing it’s unable to charge for tastings. There’s been quite a lot of discussion in various media about the difficulties faced by wineries who don’t have an on-licence, which is a pre-requisite to charge for tastings. for background, see the Stuff.nz article Wineries unable to profit from tasting tourism call for law change.
We look forward to seeing you soon and wrapping up the club’s 40th birthday celebrations in style!