2005 Annual Reports

Wine Master's Report

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Wine Masters Report for 2005

To all Bacchus members,

What a great year it has been for decision making, drinking and buying. We spent a full meeting discussing what we wanted out of our cellar and is summarised below:

Storage:
There is no real need to use a professional cellar. A working bee will be organised to help dig out the new Cellar at Bruce’s house. Magnums will be bought over bottles if there is a choice at time of purchase.

Quantity and Quality of wines:
The cellar should hold around 500 bottles of wine. 60% of our budget will be spent on ‘icon wines’, 40% on everything else. This includes great deals that members come across, lesser known wines that come recommended from the likes of Phil (Armidale) or Declan (Parkhill).

The ‘icon wines’ will be chosen by us the members. We will nominate 40 wines to go onto this list, so I will need from you all, your all time 10 top wines (or up to 40 if you want). Remember 60% of our budget will go on wines from this list, so make sure they are wines you want to drink...

Allocation of the cellar:
70% Red and 30% white
Of the reds: 35% Shiraz, 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Blends and Merlots and others, 10% Pinot Noir

And the whites: 30% Chardonnay, 30% Riesling, 10% Sweet/Deserts/stickies, 30% Others

These are obviously rough guides but a guide non the less.

Most of our wines were purchased from the ‘Cellar night’ this year held away from our normal abode. Declan from Parkhill cellars was fantastic with his spread of food and wine matching tests was a real experience and exactly what the club was after in the night. Some of the purchases included: Clover Hill Sparkling, Yalumba Black sparkling Red, Punt Road stickies and others…

Also following our new Icon wine initiative, we have purchased perhaps the three most expensive bottles in our cellar. A Cellar door special at Wynns saw a magnum of 1999 John Riddoch find its way into the cellar and DC used his bidding skills to obtain two magnums of Yarra Yering Dry Red #1 (Voted best wine of the Bacchus Icon wine night of 2004) (as well as snagging a real bargain with ½ dozens of 1993 Yalumba Signature series for $30 per bottle!!!)

And add this to the cellar we already have and we have approximately 213 bottles of wine with an approximate worth of $5,700.00.

This all looks great for a fantastic drinking future.

Cheers

Bruce Holloway
2005 Wine Master

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