The Fab Five … someone has to take the photograph 🙂

Friday’s meeting saw 5 members in attendance with 6 members away with commitments, or ill. The theme for the evening was – Wines you like for under £7.

The most popular wine scoring 15 was “The Best” (South African) 14% Shiraz.

The raffle prize donated by our Treasurer, Wayne – The Comeback King (Wine), was won by? Yes you’ve guessed it Alan Edwards, his third win. Our Chairman, Dai, kindly donated a lovely bottle of Cockburns Ruby Port which was enjoyed by all. A fantastic evening !

This evening’s meeting saw seven members get together for a meeting that took us all back to the 1990’s thank’s to our Chairman, Dai Coleman…

Dai, delighted us with a bottle of “Gary Barlows” finest…which of course brought on numerous puns..

Could it be magic? Back for good. I’ll leave you to fill in the rest of the song titles.

The most popular wine of the evening was shared with us by our Treasurer, Wayne, a Chronic Cellars, Purple Paradise, Zinfandel, scoring a very creditable 14.

The raffle prizes (all three) were supplied by Stuart, and the first prize went to… Stuart. Second to our Chairman, Dai and finally, the third prize to our Web Master, Talbot.

Everyone had a fantastic evening with lots of laughter and good wine… Cheers.

This evenings meeting saw 7 members enjoy 7 outstanding wines from all over the world.

And then… the late arrival of our Treasurer and Social Secretary, Wayne, saw him share with us the joint most popular wine of the evening, together with the wine from our Secretary Jim. Wayne brought a Villarissa Grand Reserva, from the Douro area of Portugal and Jim shared with us a Santa Magdalena Balduzzi. So, by the end of the night it was in fact 8 wines enjoyed by 8 members.

The more observant of you may notice that there are in fact 9 empty wine bottles. The bottle of Jam Shed was in fact a decoy. Our Chairman, Dai Coleman, placed the contents of another bottle into the Jam Shed bottle. This caused some confusion when the reveal of the supposed “Jam Shed” took place. It then caused much laughter when we were told we had all been pranked by Dai.

The evenings raffle prize was donated by Talbot, a bottle of Port and Stilton, which was won by, drum roll please …

Alan, who won the raffle at our last meeting. Alan kindly shared the Port which brought the meeting to pleasant close.

This evening saw an unusual theme for the 8 members and 1 guest in attendance. The theme was…

“Wines that Wayne would like.”

The theme was suggested by our Chairman, Dai Coleman, to acknowledge and thank Wayne for all the work he does getting the room ready for our meetings, clearing up and washing the glasses ready for the next meeting. The theme meant that we enjoyed wines with strong forthright tastes and quite high alcohol content – due to the very nature of such wines generally being more mature wines.

Here are the wines of the night, with the most popular wine being a Vino de Italia Grande Alberone, Zinfandel courtesy of our scribe, Kevin. Pictured on the right.

The raffle prize was donated by Alan Edwards and won by …. drum role please… Alan Edwards. But we all enjoyed a share of the prize! Cheers Alan and well done!

There was however some confusion about who had brought which wine. Naturally you would expect the central figure of the evening to know which wine was was his. That was not the case. So just in case this person is in any doubt. Here is the wine YOU brought to the evening…

A great night at the New Fosse Wine Society with 7 members and Ians Guest Stuart enjoyed wines from around the world. The most popular wine of the night was The Big Juicy @ 15.5% ABV. Provided by our Chairman Dai Coleman. An additional bottle was provided by Craig Drew – Malamado at 18% ABV Fortified Melbac from Argentina The raffle prize was provided by our Secretary Jim Pilgrim and duly won by our guest Stuart.- Who drew his own ticket.

Our Chairman Mr Coleman provided the society with a Wine Bottle Gavel to assist with the smooth running of the society meetings. The Gavel was made by his own hands.

This weeks meeting saw six members in attendance

Several other members were engaged in other pressing social gatherings. One of those did however manage to join the super six later in the evening – our Treasure and Social Secretary Wayne. Even though he wasn’t there for the whole of the meeting he kindly donated the raffle prizes which were gratefully received and enjoyed by all present.

One of the two raffle prizes can be seen on the far left, which was won by Ian and the mystery prize was won by our Chairman, Dai. Ian kindly shared his prize with all present.

A another fantastic night with 10 members in attendance. With Talbot abroad filming a new series of Last of the Spanish Wine (see last photo below).

New Crystal Wine Glasses provided by Treasurer/ Social Secretary Wayne Jones.

Joint favourite wines on the night were Burnas Vides 14.5% provided by Kevin Powell and Juicy 15% provided by Dai Coleman. We also tasted wines from the Middle East – Israel 🇮🇱 and Lebanon 🇱🇧.

Raffle prizes provided by Dai Coleman (surprise wine) and Stuart Howells (Famous Chocolates). Kevin Powell winning the wine and Neal Wood winning the Chocolates.

The Society’s second meeting of 2022 had 9 members in attendance, who all enjoyed a great evening and some fantastic wines. The second meeting of 2022 saw 2 wines selected as joint favourites of the evening supplied by Neale Wood – a Goroduro and Alan Edwards – a Lisboa Bonitia. Both scored a very respectable 14 marks (out of 20)

The society held its first raffle. 1st prize was supplied by Kevin Powell – Hacienda Don Hernan won by Alan Edwards who dully shared it with all 9 members. 2nd prize – Famous Chocolates donated by Stuart Howells and won by Craig Drew who shared with all members. The next meetings raffle prize will be kindly donated by our Chairman Dai Coleman.

This week was “free choice” and saw a second time visitor, Craig Brown, a guest of our Treasure and Social Secretary, Wayne bring along the most popular wine of the evening. It was an Italian Primitivo, a Pasqua Desire, Lush and Zin which scored a very creditable 15. Well done Craig.

This week’s meeting saw another new member join the society. A big welcome to Craig.

The most popular wine of the evening was a “white wine”. A Jam Shed Chardonnay no less! It scored a very impressive 15. Another great evening socialising and enjoying some fine wines.