Australia Day Celebration
The event will make history with an Alberta First!
Guess what we will be feasting on. You will not want to miss it.
We will also be serving some special wine from the club’s cellar.
Mark your calendar:
January 24th, 2006
Dinner at Normand’s on Jasper Avenue.
6:00pm
Members and first guest $80 each
Non-members $90 each
Click this link, print the form and mail it with your cheque to register
Thank you Joe for putting together this event!
The creativity and hard work of our members is what makes our club activities so diverse and enjoyable.
I enjoyed the demonstration; Patrick, the chef, was both entertaining and informative. I know that the food we ate was somehow being assembled or staged in the room next door so that it could be brought in at the correct time. This showed me that the pre-preparation tricks Patrick shared with us really do work.
To me the selection of wines was good for the meal and the idea of tasting all three with each dish was interesting. I thought the overall volume of wine served was appropriate what do you think? How many of you think we should have had an additional wine to share at the beginning while we mingled before sitting down for the demonstration? Or should we have had the white wine for that?
Of the three wines the Moculta Shiraz was my favorite.
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It’s that time of year again. Please join our club for what should be a great year. We have 5 fun events planned featuring some new wines, some new venues and some fantastic socializing.
The 2006 membership form can be printed by clicking this link >
2006 Membership form.
Then mail it with your $30 cheque by January 5th. in time to recieve the notice for our biggest event of the year celebrating Austrailia Day.
See the Informational Page to the right “Membership” for more details about the benefits of membership.
2003 Glaetzer “Wallace”
Retail price $26.99, 14.5% alchohol
Wallace is a 70% Shiraz – 30% Grenache blend made from fruit sourced from the famed Ebenezer vineyard in the Barossa Valley. The ripe and peppery old vine Shiraz provides weight, texture and a fleshy richness to the wine. The Grenache contributes sweet cherry, toffee and earthy
characteristics. The wine is delightful now but will reward cellaring for up to a decade.
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2003 Tait “The Ball Buster” Shiraz
Retail Price: $29.99
Blend of 60% Shiraz, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon & 20% Merlot from Barossa Valley fruit. Winemaker Bruno Tait strives to make big, thick, juicy and extracted reds. Initially he was going to name the wine after his wife, “Michelle’s Block” but thought it would evoke an image of a wine that is soft and elegant. So he named it The Ball Buster instead! Not surprisingly, this wine is purchased by many of our lady customers looking for that very special gift.
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