This week’s meeting saw six members enjoy a “free choice” meeting with wines from Italy, Chile, South Africa, U.S.A. and Australia. The most popular wine of the evening was an Italian Negramaro from the Puglia region produced by Santodeno and brought by our Chairman, Jim. It scored a very impressive 14 overall, closely followed by a Californian Zinfandel courtesy of Tony scoring 13.67. Full details of the wines sampled can be found here…

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This week’s meeting saw 5 members enjoy wines from South America, a theme chosen by Paul, who brought the most popular wine of the evening. Paul’s wine was a Chilean Diablo Malbec from the Valle de Maule region scoring a very respectable 13.4 overall. 4 of the wines were Malbec’s and one a Carmanere courtesy of our chairman Jim. Not surprisingly all of the wines hailed from either Chile or Argentina.

Full details of the wines can be found here…

This week’s meeting saw seven members enjoy seven wines, leaving the Village a little before eleven o’clock.

We enjoyed wines from Spain, South Africa and Australia, with the two most popular wines of the evening being a South African Cabernet Sauvignon and a Spanish Rioja, courtesy of Jim and Paul respectively. Both scoring 12.86. The evening was rounded off with an excellent “Windsor” Port, kindly provided by Craig and there were Maltesers a plenty with several members supplying the Society’s favourite chocolate.

To see a full detailed list of the wines sampled click here …

Our latest meeting saw us meeting in the home of our Chairman, Jim, on the occasion of his birthday. Due to works at the Ponthir Village Hall we were unable to meet there, so Jim stepped in to save the day!

A great evening was had by all and we are very grateful for Jim’s hospitality and his good wife for putting up with us.

Some excellent wines were sampled and Jim kindly provided a fine Port to finish the evening’s frivolities. The wines sampled can be viewed here …

Just four members for our meeting on Friday 7th February – Quality members though and quality wines.

View the wines sampled on the night here …

Six of our members attended our first meeting of 2025 to enjoy great company and some great wines ! Our next meeting will be on Friday 24 January, which will be a themed meeting, chosen by Tony, who brought the most popular wine of the evening. The theme is, wines of Sicily.

See the full details of the wines sampled here …

Last night saw the societies last meeting for 2024. We had a full house with 11 of our subscribing members in attendance. As is our custom when we have 8 or more in attendance we paired up the attendees, with each pair bringing the exact same wine. Though someone did manage to bring the exact same wine but one bottle was a 2021 vintage and the other a 2022.

We enjoyed wines from Italy, Chile, Spain, Portugal and Australia. The most popular wine of the evening was an Italian Millefiori Appassimento Veneto, scoring a very creditable 14.1, courtesy of the Jim and Lewis pairing. The evening was finished with a glass of Port brought by our Scribe to celebrate the arrival of a grandson and our families in general as we approach the festive season. Our next meeting will be on Friday 10th January 2025 when the theme will be wines from the southern hemisphere.

A complete list of the wines sampled can be found here …

A complete list of of the wines sampled since September 2022 to the present day can be found here …

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This week the society held its Annual General Meeting to agree and update the rules and appoint a new Secretary for next year. Due to pressing work commitments our current secretary Wayne is stepping down. He has done a fantastic job for a number of years, organising the members and the meetings, particularly during the COVID-19 period. During the restrictions Wayne prepared and sanitised the meeting room, made sure it was well ventilated and thereby provided a safe environment for our meetings to continue in compliance with the restrictions in place at that time. Thank you for all your hard work. You will be sorely missed as Secretary.

Neale was elected our new secretary, commencing his duties in 2025. Thank you for volunteering Neale.

After the A.G.M. we sampled some excellent wines. We had 9 members and 1 guest in attendance, Anthony. Due to the numbers present we paired up so that each pairing brought the same wine, to allow us to sample a sufficient amount of the wine to fairly asses it. The theme for the evening chosen by our President Jim, was wines under 13.5% ABV. Of the 5 wines sampled the most popular of the evening was a Alkànie, Pinot Noir from Moldova scoring a very respectable 13.7 overall brought by the pairing of Lewis and his guest Anthony. The evening finished with a glass of Port courtesy of our Treasurer, Alan.

Click here to see full details of the wines sampled.

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The Infamous 6 drink again.

A primativo/zinfandel evening chosen by Craig. The Cock-up of the evening was our Secretary Wayne bringing a cab sav wine from Chile 🇨🇱 🥲. Weird moment of the night was Neale announcing he cooked his wine for 1 minute in an 800w microwave 🤔. The favourite wine of the evening was Neale’s Zinfandel of U.S.A from Lodi. 14.5% A.B.V costing £5.60. Scoring a very respectful 14.5. Craig kindly brought the Maltesers & Port enjoyed by all attending the evening. Thank you Craig.

Paul became our latest member and we are looking forward to sampling many more wines with him!

Full details of the wines sampled can be found here…

The society’s meeting on Friday 13th turned out to be lucky for the 8 members present, enjoying red wines from France, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Australia and Spain. However, the evening started informally with a Blush wine courtesy of our newest member Lewis. The most popular wine of the evening was a Malbec from Argentina “The Wanderer” brought by Craig who also kindly supplied a bottle of Cockburn’s Special Reserve Port and the now obligatory Maltesers for all to enjoy. The next meeting will be themed one with the theme being selected by Craig.

To see a full list of the wines sampled click here…

To see a full list of the wines sampled since 23 September 2022 to the present date click here…

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