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Cellar Club BBQ at Derek’s Place

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Sunday, 29th January 2023, from 4 pm. Check your inbox for address details.

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as are available by starting 2023 as usual with our Club’s January BBQ at Derek’s place on Sunday, 29th January 2023.

Reminding you:

  1. Please arrive no earlier than 3:45 pm
  2. That even house numbers bring a Dessert and uneven house numbers bring a Salad. If you are bringing a dessert, because of a limited fridge capacity, could we please have some without cream or the need for ice cream?
  3. This is a B.Y.O event for members to share and sample wines – there is a communal space for these. We would ask people not to take the wine away to individual tables, as this limits access to wines that people might want to try.
  4. This is a No Charge event.
  5. Your Club is providing popcorn for the tables for nibbles, but please feel free to coordinate and bring extra nibbles for your table if you would like to.
  6. The meats this year – trialled so successfully last year – will be venison patties with a cranberry sauce and gourmet sausages.

This will be a great afternoon/evening where members get to know other Club members and share food and wine. We hope to see you all at Derek’s and start off 2023 with cheer!

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In the News: Popcorn a treat for …

2015-06-17-5580e27130e6dPopcorn a treat for gourmets with money

By Jamie Morton, NZ Herald, Monday Jun 24, 2013

You may have thought a glass of vino with your popcorn was the height of class at the cinema snack bar, but a product using Kiwi wine has gone a big step further – combining the two. Winemaker Kim Crawford has paired its brand with a US gourmet popcorn company to make pinot noir – and sauvignon blanc flavoured popcorn.

New York-based Populence’s new Pinot Noir Chocolate Drizzle and Sauvignon Blanc Kettle brands are infused with flavours of the familiar Kiwi wines, but at this stage there are no plans to bring the product to New Zealand. The fancy novelty is non-alcoholic, GM-free and, unsurprisingly, has a hefty price tag – US$28 ($36) a tin.

Kim Crawford marketing spokesman Nila Vermiglio told Britain’s Daily Mail Populence had done a “fantastic job of capturing the wines’ notes”. “The lemony Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Lemon is bright and zesty, bursting with
flavour and pairing beautifully with the wine, while the indulgent Kim Crawford Pinot Noir Chocolate Drizzle uses the classic pairing of wine with chocolate to harness the wine’s flavours into an indulgent treat.”

One of the newspaper’s reviewers described the popcorn as tasting not like wine, but cherry chocolate-covered salted popcorn and lemon-infused candied popcorn. Another wrote: “The lemon zest in the kettle corn was delicious, but too overpowering to detect any taste of wine.”