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Our meeting on the 20th January will have a theme which is as the title suggests …

Your favourite wine which costs under £7.

Friday’s meeting saw 6 members enjoy an excellent selection of wines

Three of the wines received an overall score of 14 out of 20. Quite an achievement. This included an Australian Mclaren white wine brought by Alan. An outstanding score for a white wine. The other two 14’s were red wines, an Altana Douro from Portugal, courtesy of Jim and a Spanish Matsu El Viejo, courtesy of Wayne.

Two late visitors, Talbot and Oscar, joined the members to enjoy a sample of the fine wines on offer, though Oscar wisely drank just water.

This weeks meeting saw the society celebrate Wayne’s 60th birthday. Congratulations Wayne !

To help with the celebrations Wayne kindly provided a fantastic cheese board…

The meeting was also the society’s annual general meeting.

Jim is now our Chairman, Wayne our Secretary and Alan our Treasurer. A great night was had by all and we enjoyed some excellent wines with four wines, including the guest wine brought by Craig, scoring a very creditable 14. The theme of the evening being wines with a date on the label between 2012 and 2018. The most popular wine of the evening was an Italian, Puglia, Crosiero Nero, from our newly elected Chairman Jim.

Craig kindly shared a fine Port and Malteser’s with the members.

Not the Beatles John, Paul, George and Ringo.

The Society’s Alan, Wayne, Stuart and Talbot.

A great evening was had by all four. We enjoyed wines from Portugal, Greece, Argentina and Spain with an additional bottle, courtesy of Wayne from New Zealand. All of the wines were highly rated with the most popular wine being Wayne’s Spanish Monastrell from the Alicante region. The surprise wine of the evening was Alan’s Greek Syrah from the Pelopennese region. The evening finished with a glass or two of Port accompanied by Stilton courtesy of Talbot.

Our secretary, Jim, was unable to make it to the evening due to a last minute injury and illness. Get well soon Jim !!

After an all too long absence for Craig (Rally) and Stuart (Holiday) the society met again to celebrate the joys of good wine and good company.

We all enjoyed a variety of wines from all over the world and in particular a white Argentinian Trivento Malbec and a Jacobs Creek, Barossa Valley Shiraz. The most popular wine of the evening being the Jacobs Creek, Shiraz brought by our President Dave – Thank you Dave. A big thank you should also go to our Chairman’s wife, Tracey, for selecting the Trivento white Malbec for him. One of the most popular white wines the society has had the pleasure of sampling.

The evening concluded with two bottles of Port courtesy of Craig B. Another fantastic evening!

This evening’s meeting saw 9 members enjoy wines from around the world. Three of those were very well received and well chilled white wines which complimented the very warm weather. The most popular wine of the evening was provided by our Chairman Dai who also kindly supplied some portable air conditioning.

We were joined a little later in the evening by our President, Dave Llewellyn and his guest visitor Chris Evans. A great evening with some very fine wines and a Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port to conclude the evening’s proceedings.

This week’s meeting was attended by 8 members who enjoyed an Indian takeaway accompanied by a Mateus Rosé. All agreed that the Rosé was a great wine to accompany the curry. The curry and Rosé was followed by a Reisling courtesy of our President Dave. The most popular wine of the evening was a Santedano Negremaro from our secretary Jim scoring a very respectable 15.

The evening finished with a glass of Cockburns Ruby Soho Port direct from Portugal courtesy of Talbot.