Andre Simon

Andre Simon visited the Society on January 20th 1984. He was the joint founder of the Wine & Food Society in October 1933. He died in 1970.He believed that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"; there were only two magnums of claret left in his personal cellar at his death.
When in Ballarat, he was introduced to the members thus; President Dr Alexander, Secretary Dr Pern, Cellar Master Dr O'Sullivan, Food master Mr Baird, "Ah(he said)you must be ze patient". For more information see below:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Simon_(wine)