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Archive for July, 2009

Playing “Cupid” at the Table

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Food & Wine Matching Masterclass – “Playing Cupid at the Table”!
I know I keep banging on about our Wine Tasting Events and I appreciate it sounds like we are simply blowing our own trumpet, but when you trial a new format and it goes off not only without a hitch, but with follow up Thank You e-mails where the superlatives trip over themselves to exceed hyperbole, you can’t help feeling a little bit smug! Hee Hee!
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A Wine Tasting Event on our Terrace

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

An enquiry back in April to organise and run a Wine Tasting Event and Lunch for a Gentlemen’s Club evolved into quite a happening! Firstly, the club is called the CRAFT Club – I envisaged (foolishly), a group of sedate gentlemen whose hobbies included building Sydney Opera House out of toothpicks or wild flower photography and happily started planning a gentle and not too challenging wine tasting for these charming chaps. When I was advised sometime into my planning exercise that CRAFT stood for “Can’t Remember A Flipping Thing” Club and that there are branches in all sorts of exotic places round the world, I realised that a more tongue in cheek and fun day was more appropriate.
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