FINE WINE SUPPERS

Venue: Skinkers, 42 Tooley Street, SE1 2SZ
Meetings: last Friday of the month (not December), 6.30pm
Contact: John Rhodes (johnrhodes4@activemail.co.uk)
24 Highfield Road, Purley, CR8 2JG (020 8660 1486)
Membership: Open
Membership Fee: None
Cost of Events: Usually £59.50
Typical Attendance: 20-40

How often have you heard a speaker at a wine tasting say: "Of course, this would taste so much better with food"? So I decided to try it, and almost six years ago held a Ch. Musar Fine Wine Supper. It was intended as a one-off, but the 40 or so present demanded another one, so maybe quarterly? But folk wanted it more often still, so my son, Paul, and I now hold them monthly, on the last Friday of each month except December, at 6.30 pm.

They have always been held at a Davy’s Wine Bar in London, currently Skinkers – just south of London Bridge station. The usual format is a Champagne Reception, up to three wines with each course of a three-course meal, and port with the coffee. Usual cost is £59.50, except in November when it is £99.50. We don't aim to make a profit, and if income exceeds expenditure, then an extra wine is included.

The fine wine lunch on a Saturday in Purley has now become an annual fixture.

Programme 2010

Friday 29 Jan	Champagne reception
Saturday 6 Feb	Fine Wine Lunch at the Croydon Park Hotel ( 12.30pm ) £69.50
Friday 26 Feb	Ch Corbin vs Ch Grand Corbin
Friday 26 Mar	New World (including Grange 1972
Friday 30 Apr	1990 Vintage (featuring Ch Montrose)
Friday 28 May	St Emilion
Friday 25 Jun	Champagne (including Krug)
Friday 30 July	1982 Vintage (including Vieux Ch Certan)
Friday 27 Aug	Ch Musar (back to 1964)
Friday 24 Sep	St Emilion
Friday 29 Oct	Burgundy
Friday 26 Nov	Paul’s Birthday Bash (including Ch d’Yquem)