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The year in retrospec

Our year

It is usual at this time to review our year. As ever we began with our summer BBQ at the end of January. The usual excellent occasion and thanks to Derek for making his premises available. It is an excellent facility. Our first tasting was the Rosė tasting presented by Will Brunel-Morven from Maison Vauron. Rosės are becoming increasingly popular, particularly as a summer wine.March was the time for Ata Rangi and was followed in April by our Quiz Night. An enjoyable and fun occasion. As usual, May was AGM time, June highlighted Giesen’s Wines and July was dinner at Bistro 52. August had us enjoying Seifried’s offerings and then in September the interesting and unique Aged Wines tasting. October was Stonecroft and last month was the festive tasting of Spanish wines. A great programme which will be nicely rounded off by our December Dinner.

Spanish tasting

It is interesting to note that EuroVintage had great orders from the Spanish tasting, and were blown away by the response. Well done everyone.

Cheers
Robin Semmens, Editor

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Ata Rangi, Blue Wine, Fair Go, Quiz night

Ata Rangi

One of the matters that arose from the Ata Rangi tasting was the challenge to match our door charge to the cost of the evening. We don’t want to risk member resistance by charging too high a door price. We were pleased that we had a good membership turnout. This tasting was subsided by 5 to 6 dollars per member. We figure this into our costing structure but we would just like to remind members that one of the benefits of the wine club is the subsiding of tastings such as Ata Rangi, which might otherwise be more expensive than people are prepared to pay.

Blue Wine News

I hope you have all noticed that we scooped the Dominion Post with the blue wine story in the last newsletter. Observant members will have noted that the paper has only carried an item on this subject in the last week. When it comes to wine, look for it here first.

Fair Go

I refer back to the quote in a previous newsletter about making ice blocks with leftover wine, which confused me greatly as I had to ask, “what is leftover wine?” This all leads me to the last issue of this newsletter where I mentioned the Fair Go episode which highlighted that some producers were using Australian wines to bolster their cheaper lines. The argument was that as 70% of NZ white wines are exported they cannot produce enough “economy”
wines for the local market.

Quiz night

While researching for our quiz night it transpires that the average price for a bottle of New Zealand wine in Britain (where a significant amount of our wine goes) is only $5.92. Apparently, a sizable amount of NZ wine is sent to the UK in bulk and re-bottled there. Seems a lot of trouble to go to for this price. Surely they can get that amount selling locally. This confuses me almost as much as blue wine and wine ice blocks.

Cheers
Robin Semmens, Editor

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Condolences, Next six months, Club in local paper

Condolences

condolences-next-six-months-club-in-local-paper57a80a53a62baThe Cellar Club would like to express its deepest sympathies to Gillian Bohm. Gillian’s son Nick died suddenly early in July. We are thinking of you Gillian.

Next six months

The programme is well in hand for the next six months, and some real treats are in store for members. After the success of the quiz night we had in June 2013 the committee have decided we will have another quiz night next February. Sharpen up your quizzing skills for that one.

Club in local paper

And just in case you missed it we had a good article in the local “Independent Herald” during the week. Read the article.

Cheers
Robin Semmens, Editor

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Quiz: Discover The Red Wine You’ll Like

New to wine? Want to find out what red wine you should start with? Answer these quick questions and we’ll tell you the perfect red wine to try.

Take This Quiz To Find Out What Red Wine You Like

Red wine rookie? Or just looking for a new favourite? Check out this great quiz from Vine Pair that suggests red wines you’re likely to enjoy based on your palate! http://buff.ly/1vQa0NI

Want to know what white wine you’ll like? We’ve got a quiz for that too.

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From the Editor

The rest of the year

I mentioned in the last newsletter that 2013 is pretty much “in the bag” as far as our calendar is concerned, and suggested members look at the line up in “Glancing forward to future events”. I can report a “not only but also” in that the programme for 2014 is now well underway with a great mix being planned for next year. Your club has had considerable interest from wineries, both established and boutique, wanting to present their wines and this is looking like a marvellous 2014 for the Cellar Club.

Editorial Privilege

Often editorials are opportunities for opinion pieces for publications, or for the editors themselves. My option this month is to extend the quiz mantra.

  • Despite my hassling members to join in the enjoyment of the July Dinner at La Cloche, I will not be there. Instead I will be doing an Aaron Gilmore on the night, where will I be?
  • As an ex public servant with some 49 years of service where might I have been found on the Wednesday before the July dinner?
  • In case people think I am single minded “and his name was …………., and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west. What was his name?
  • Which producer presented in June last year, and plays classical music to the vines? (I wonder what Rap would do for them)

I have a chiller sleeve for the first person who gives me the correct answers.

Cheers
Robin Semmens, Editor