Our wine group consists of some 25 members, and we like to have at least 6 participants with a maximum of 8 for a session to be held…….the ladies generally organize a restaurant for themselves and are there to drive their husbands safely home………!
We generally have a wine tasting each month, hosted by a club member who selects six wines to be blind tasted, and arranges the evening at his home.
There is a nominal charge (usually about 20 francs) towards the cost of wine and light snacks.
Much fun is had by all.
Contact Terry Gale if you want to join this group.
Wine-Tasting for 2022
January —————
February Martin Vaughan
March Terence Gale
April Rudi Pluss
May Stephen Long
June Ian Cappin
July Tony Raeburns
August David Gwilliam
September
October Gerry Swart
November Brian Allardyce
December —————–
Wine-Tasting Activity 2021
We have been very fortunate that there has been good support for our group in these challenging times……though who can resist a glass or two of wine to talk of many things, as the quote goes by Lewis Carroll, from the Walrus and the Carpenter ‘the time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things, of shoes and ships, and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings’…….
So on June 30, we were kindly hosted by Paul Sochaczewski and his wife Monique. Paul provided 6 varying red wines from Italy, whose labels were conveniently covered by the traditional ‘socks’ donated by Hamish McCombie some eons of time ago…..the highest score was 3 out of the 6 correctly identified.
On July 13 our hosts were from Morges, Ian Cappin and his wife Anne. The choice of wines that evening, were from different regions of Spain, whose most well-known reds are the Rioja wines……. again the highest score was 3 out of 6.
August 27 was our latest wine-tasting evening hosted by David Gwilliam and his wife Paddy. Again we were confronted by wines from Italy, which all seemed to be ‘ruby’ red with rich plum aromas and cherry fruit flavors…..and difficult to differentiate. Highest score was only 2 correct…….
Our host for the 30 September 2021 wine-tasting was Tony Raeburns. Seven of us enjoyed sampling and trying to identify a selection of ‘Lesser Known European Reds’ coming from France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. As usual our tastes varied but a score of 3 on 6 was achieved and was highly commendable.
Stephen and Kate Long were our hosts for this month’s wine-tasting on November 23rd. The title ‘Swiss red varietals’ was intriguing and included a selection of 6 different grape origins ranging from Syrah, Cornalin, Humagne Rouge and the well- known Pinot Noir……. Again 3 out of the six reds were correctly identified……