Office Bearers


President: Paul Martino

Cellar Master: Shaun English

Secretary: Dean Stevens

Treasurer: Gab Yanes

Food Master: Andrew Lewis

Wine Master: Andrew Rowan

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Christmas Function Carboni's


Christmas at Carboni's
Thursday December 15th 2016




Food from the Menu

Wines by donation from Ballarat A&P Society
(24 bottles! A good time don't miss next year) 


Christmas Trees: A Christmas Circular Letter by Robert Frost



Cellar List November 2016




Menu Dinner 773





Dinner 773

Canapés

Oysters Natural & Kilpatrick
Prawn Twister
Bruschetta

2006 Savaterre Chardonnay

Entrée

Peking Duck Wontons & Kataifi Tiger prawns

2005 Crawford River Riesling
2009 Rocca di Montegrossi Chianti

Mains

250 gr Wagyu Eye Fillet cooked medium rare with spicy chorizo couscous salad and a drizzling of pepper sauce

2008 Domaine du Vieux Telegraph ‘La Crau’ Chateauneuf du Pape
2001 Birks Wendouree Cabernet Sauvignon

Dessert

Eton Mess
Fresh strawberries marinated in Cointreau and blood orange with crushed meringue & crème fraiche

2004 H Blin Champagne


Chef: The Chef
Food Master: Andrew Lewis
Wine Master: Andrew Bradley

Pellenc Grape Sorting System




Pellenc Visionics Grape Sorting System

Menu Dinner 772



Dinner 772

Canapes
Crostini topped with smoked salmon and dill cream cheese
Pork & coriander dumplings
Spicy Kofta with yogurt dip
2002 Pol Roger Vintage Champagne
Entree
Salad of Meredith Goats Cheese, ham and beetroot

2004 Dopff au Moulin Riesling Grand Cru Schoenenbourf
2009 Ata Rangi Pinot Gris

Main
Eye fillet of beef, shallot marmalade, celeriac puree and essence of port
1998 Penfolds 407 Cabernet Sauvignon
1967 Seppelt Colin Preece Memorial Burgundy Hermitage
1998 Orlando St Hugo Cabernet Sauvignon

 Dessert
Heavenly Rose Tea infused ice cream, with fig, raspberries and pistachio crumble
1981 Chateau Roumieu Sauternes

Chef: Paul Shelmerdine
Food Master: Andrew Lewis
Wine Master: Andrew Bradley


Cellar List Sept 2016




Menu Dinner 771



Dinner 771

Selection of individually hand crafted canapés
Roast pumpkin cone of warm goat cheese
South Cape brie melted on a crouton of house made ciabatta, toasted with lemon oil topped with Port wine sautéed strawberries 
Roasted Australian lamb rump, tomato chutney on a bun
Smoked chicken and potato quesadilla with smashed avocado
Blackened seared salmon on a slice of cucumber and a dollop of aioli
Pirie Tasmania NV
Grilled Blueeye rested on a courgette wrapped parsley mashed potato, a drizzle of lightly smoked capsicum coulis and chervil sprigs


2001 Weingut MR Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett

2007 Penfolds Reserve Bin A Chardonnay

Pulled and pressed lamb shoulder grilled, served on crispy rosemary polenta with bok choy and a red wine and sage jus

2000 Mount Langhi Ghiran Shiraz
2008 Alain Burguet La Justice Gevery Chambertin

Trilogy of rich chocolate mousse, wattle seed and coffee brulee & a citrus mascarpone scoop
Seppelt Grand Muscat DP63

Chef: Alain Martineau
Food Master: Andrew Lewis
Wine Master: Andrew Bradley
Cellar Master: John Coco



Dinner 770 Menu Ian Home Commemoration



Ballarat Wine & Food Society Dinner 770

Wine 
Yellowglen Perle Vintage 2009
(from Ian Home’s private cellar)
2015 Best’s Foudre Riesling
2008 Tomboy Hill Ballarat Ava’s Picking Chardonnay

2003 Ian Home Pinot Noir MV6
(from Ian Home’s private cellar)
2010 de Meursault Savigny-Peuillets 1er Cru 
2013 Dog Rock Grenache
Solo Arte “Vino dei Santi”
Wine Master | Andrew Bradley Cellar Master | John Coco

Menu
CANAPES
Smoked salmon, potato blini, Yarra Valley caviar Mushroom, black cat truffle, tallegio arancini Cheese Goujere
ENTREE
Potato, leek, watercress veloute Skipton smoked eel
MAIN
Press of Western Plains Pork, brawn croquette morcilla, parsnip, apple, charred onion petals
DESSERT
Textures of lemon, oat biscuit, meringue creme fraiche sorbet

Chef | Shannon Easton Consultant Chef | Ian Curley
Food Master | Andrew Lewis

Attendees
Allan & Kaye Webb;
Andrew & Sue Bradley 
Andrew & Susie Lewis
 Anthony Singleton & Veronica Corbert
 Barbara & Peter Murphy
Bob House
Claire Jelbart
Don & Sharon Moss

Gabriel & Kay Yanes

Jenni Robertson
Jenny & Reno Rizzo
Joanne More
John & Sonia Coco
John & Neridah Peirce
John & Voi Williams
Les & Trudy Dickinson
Lockie & Cathy Dyer
Luigi & Athalie Bazzani
Mal & Cheryl Anderson
Mike & Kate Connellan
Mike & Liz Sheedy
Nina Valentine
Nola Oliver
Pat Liston
Rob & Maria Campbell
Robert & Lorraine John
Ross & Liz Wilkie
Sue Home
Tony & Leanne Campana



Toast to Ian Home.

Thank you Mr. President.....well, what can one say about Ian Home that hasn't already been said so eloquently and amusingly by friends at his funeral. I suspect the answer would be.....quite a lot, so I thought I may as well concentrate for a time on Ian’s time with us in this Society, some of his friends, and also on his significant help in driving the development of the wine industry in the 
Avoca and Ballarat areas.
Most of you here tonight will have met Ian Home and will have warm memories if his unfailing 
positiveness and friendship. Some will not, and so here I will remark that Ian stood for pretty much everything that a Wine & Food Society such as ours would hold as important...well do I remember the many occasions that Ian opened his house and winery to this society. 
I remember the Grand Tours that were organised to wine regions such as the Northeast, Rutherglen area, the Coonawarra, the Morningtom Peninsula, where not only did we have access to the 
wineries, but we found that extra touch that comes from having men in the society who knew the vignerons personally and well, and Ian was right up there. We should be doing these trips again. 
Ian, as did many members then, had an amazing Palate Memory, given to very few, where he coulld analyse and recall specific wines from a short tasting and often get it right! One can remember others who had this skill too....names such as Kostas Rind and Geoff Oliver come to mind...and we even have some here amongst us tonight!.... everyone has his own theories about wine....Ian’s I remember, was that as a wine gets older the grape differences become less and the thing that stands out the most is the Area. This is quite a respectable theory, and I am sure its pretty well right. Personally, I always think that wines from Langhorne Creek taste of Tar.....ashphalt....and I tasted quite a lot of ashphalt when I was a motorbike owner. And that wine without an Acid backbone are not even fit for cooking. But this is not the occasion for personal prejudices.
Much has been said about Ian’s love of cars..."Real Cars", as John Emery said at Ian's funeral....by this he means cars that have to stop and have the plugs cleaned every 100 Kilometres and another pint of oil poured in...but Ian I remember also had a Very Hot BMW Coupe and found himself being chased by a Police Holden one night. It was the work of a True Genius, to scream over Woodsmans Hill, do a smoking right up the exit opposite Boundary Road and watch the Police race over the Rail Bridge in hot but futile pursuit.
 
Not much has been said about Ian’s involvement along with men such as Geoff Oliver, Wal Henning, and then Luigi Bazzni and Euan Jones in the development of the Moonambel and Landsborough Valley winegrowing areas, and I think it’s worth putting on record that Ian was always the one to Promote any effort here. In the first days when Geoff Oliver in the 60’s with Wal Henning started Taltarni, Ian planted a small plot of Shiraz himself in a paddock....I think about 10 hectares... that is now part of Warrenmang. Later on, when Geoff Oliver sold Taltarni and developed Warrenmang. Ian withdrew from active participation for a while.
In the late 90s Wal Henning flew Geoff Oliver and a CSIRO oneologist named Murray Clayton over the Landsborough Valley and they knew instantly that this was the place to develop a great vineyard. They landed and contacted Ian who said I know just the people to do this....and the Glenkara Estate was born. 300 hectares were bought and planted and Ian Home was the chairman of this 
Estate. Sadly, Geoff did not survive to see this out....we have a marvellous Shiraz produced to this day by Wal Henning and his winemaker Daughter,
named in memory of Geoff Oliver.
So...I wont ramble on, but I will propose a toast now to Ian Home, but also, as I know he would wish...to Absent Friends.