|
Chapter Chair
Becky Wilson
deanwils@carr.org |
Secretary
Barry Brunett |
Treasurer
John Landon |
11/5/03
Greetings,
As the year is coming to a close, I will be starting
this newsletter with a reminder about getting in your checks AND wine
for the Ham Mowbray Scholarship Fund-raiser and wine basket event. At
this time I only have seven checks and four bottles of wine, so if
it's to be the grand success that it was last year, I need those
bottles and checks at the next meeting. Again, I will be happy to
come and get them if need be (I have a few minutes free at about
5:00AM on the 27 of NovemberJ ). Dean and I have put together lots of
extra little goodies to include with the wine donations to make the
baskets tons of fun. Along with those things, we've put together our
own donation basket of Chesapeake Bay Crab Company items and I guess
I'll do another jewelry donation basket too. Naomi and Phil opened up
their pantry and added a few of Naomi's great homemade goodies
(ignore her, she only thinks she donated a jar of her great chutney.
I have no recollection of a jar of chutney in the box of things they
gave meJ ) Then, don't forget, we still have the other half case of
wine that our supreme treasurer donated last year. So come on and get
the wine and checks flowing. All of the money goes to the Scholarship
Fund and the wine goes back to the lucky members whose names get
picked at the Champagne tasting in December. Again, The check is to
be made out for $25.00 (or more) to the AWSEF and the
wine has to have a retail value of $10.00. Remember that you have to
donate a bottle and a check to get your name in the fish bowl.
Our October meeting was a great event. Joe Fiola put
together a wonderful group of Malbecs from Argentina. Joe presented
us with a few different types of tasting experiences. First, we
contrasted two Malbecs from the Elsa label but two different vintage
years. He followed that with two pairs that were first and second
labels. He finished off the tasting by offering a truly stellar
Malbec that was so adored, we decided not to include it in the voting
for #1 as it was so clearly #1 both in quality and price ($49.00.)
Thank you Joe for a great tasting and Barbara and Bill for a great
day and beautiful deck to spend it on!
|
Wine |
Votes
Best of 1-6 |
Votes
Best of all |
Price |
|
Elsa, San Rafael, 1998 |
2 |
0 |
$6.99 |
|
Elsa, 2000 |
3 |
0 |
$6.99 |
|
Alamos (Argentina) 2001 |
0 |
0 |
$10.99 |
|
Catena, 2001 |
0 |
0 |
$13.99 |
|
Trumpeter, 2001 |
14 |
2 |
$9.99 |
|
Felipe Rutini, 2000 |
9 |
0 |
$13.99 |
|
Yacochaya, 2000 |
|
17 |
$48.99 |
November's tasting will be at the home of Peg and Art
Michaelsen. Please call them by Thursday, November 13 if you plan to
attend. We will taste a group of 2000 Bordeaux wines put together by
Pennee Parker and John Jamison. It should be an exciting meeting.
In December I will be turning over the chairpersonship
to Richard Murray. Barbara Brown will be taking over Barry's position
as Secretary. Dean will continue to be our webmaster and we all need
to extend a big 'Thank You' to John Landon, as he continues to act in
the position as treasurer. My heart also feels the need to remember
Al Kacsur. I missed him both in his illness and now since his passing
and will continue to do so at every meeting that he is not a part of.
"Wine from long habit has become an
indispensable for my health."
- Thomas Jefferson (I thought I said that)
