Delectable Blue
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Friends, countrymen (and women), wine snobs and wine slobs.
It's that time of year again. We are organising another New Year Sydney meetup, a year on from our inaugural meeting. The proposed date is Friday January 6, the location to be decided.
There will be a theme, and you get to help us choose. We have two current theme suggestions:
We are hoping that having a mix of styles will help break up the monotony of tasting too many similar wines in succession. This year, we are trying to de-emphasise the competitive nature of previous meetups, so you will not be required to bring two bottles of your selected wine, with the winners taking the spoils. However, to try and encourage a bit of diversity there will be a prize for the best white wine of the night and the best red wine of the night.
Nevertheless in the interests of further developing the sharing nature of the community, we will be asking participants to bring a second bottle of their choosing, to go into a blind swap. We do ask people to be thoughtful and generous of spirit. As a guideline we would suggest a minimum RRP of $30 for swap wines.
After some discussion, we feel that the May meetup was probably a little on the large side, with too many wines to do them all justice, and too much pressure on the person managing the pours. We are therefore suggesting that we limit the numbers to 12 participants, which we think is at the upper end of what is manageable. If we have interest from more than 12 people, we will consider splitting the group up into two separate events.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending (tentative or confirmed), and if you prefer theme option 1 or 2. We will go with whatever the majority decide.
All suggestions gratefully received, feel free to PM me if you'd prefer not to post publicly.
Cheers,
DB
It's that time of year again. We are organising another New Year Sydney meetup, a year on from our inaugural meeting. The proposed date is Friday January 6, the location to be decided.
There will be a theme, and you get to help us choose. We have two current theme suggestions:
- Riesling and Shiraz
- Western Australian wines
We are hoping that having a mix of styles will help break up the monotony of tasting too many similar wines in succession. This year, we are trying to de-emphasise the competitive nature of previous meetups, so you will not be required to bring two bottles of your selected wine, with the winners taking the spoils. However, to try and encourage a bit of diversity there will be a prize for the best white wine of the night and the best red wine of the night.
Nevertheless in the interests of further developing the sharing nature of the community, we will be asking participants to bring a second bottle of their choosing, to go into a blind swap. We do ask people to be thoughtful and generous of spirit. As a guideline we would suggest a minimum RRP of $30 for swap wines.
After some discussion, we feel that the May meetup was probably a little on the large side, with too many wines to do them all justice, and too much pressure on the person managing the pours. We are therefore suggesting that we limit the numbers to 12 participants, which we think is at the upper end of what is manageable. If we have interest from more than 12 people, we will consider splitting the group up into two separate events.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending (tentative or confirmed), and if you prefer theme option 1 or 2. We will go with whatever the majority decide.
All suggestions gratefully received, feel free to PM me if you'd prefer not to post publicly.
Cheers,
DB
