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Dear Society Members. As many clubs haven't met by 15th February, our Early Bird Registration date, we are putting back Registration to the 15th March.To re-cap the main highlights of the Convention.Pre Convention will begin with a two day tour of Auckland's own tropical-island paradise, Waiheke Island, including wine and olive tastings,fine dining and unsurpassed vistas. This will be followed on Friday by a trip to West Auckland wineries hosted by the Dalmation fathers of the NewZealand wine industry. The cost of this will be $NZ775 or $NZ700 for "earlybird" bookings. The Convention will start with a "meet & greet" at the Convention Hotel before heading to Clevedon for an Italian evening.On Saturday we will visit the wonderful food & wine area of Matakana and in the evening dine at a historic Devonport Hotel, with one of the best known NZ wine personalities as M.C.Following the AGM on Sunday there will be lunch at the yacht club on Takapuna beach, w...

670th Dinner 18th February 2010 AGM Gee Cee’s President : Paul Hemming CANAPES Oysters with chardonnay dressing Steak Tartare Moet and Chandon NV ENTRÉE Chicken and Avocado Tian Eileen Hardy Chardonnay 2004 FIRST COURSE Seared Ocean Trout on citrus risotto with wild rocket and black truffle Penfolds Eden Valley Riesling 2004 Domaine Christian Moreau Vaillon Premier Crue 2004 MAIN COURSE Slow roasted Pork belly on a bed of black pudding mash with panfried asparagus semidried tomatoes with a roast garli jus Hanging rock Shiraz 2002 Mornington Estate Pinot Noir 2000 DESSERT Apple Charlotte with fruit compote with honey and cointreau yoghurt Chateau Climens 1986 FOODMASTER : Dennis Chamberlain WINEMASTER :Philip Dover CHEF Mark Parsons

President’s Report to AGM, Wine and Food Society of Ballarat Gentlemen, It is my pleasure as President of the Society, to present the Annual Report at this year’s AGM. Despite our Society’s relatively small number of members, we continue to enjoy the benefits of a Cellar, laid down over many years by current and past-Cellar Masters. This enables us to enjoy our monthly dinners at the various establishments in Ballarat, accompanied by wines that few of us would be able to otherwise enjoy on a regular basis. Over the past 12 months we have visited 8 different restaurants, and included some new venues for the first time. I am sure many of you will recall our May dinner at Heritage on Lydiard and the subsequent decision to hold our mid-year Ladies function at the same venue, which was a tremendous success. We also sampled Harry Lime’s for the first time and enjoyed a most enterprising and enjoyable evening at Tony Campana’s Stockade Cellars with Peter Ford as our chef for the evening. The ...

Winemaster’s report It is with great pleasure that I present my first winemasters report for the year 2009. This year has been a rapid learning curve for someone who is a self confessed foodie, as opposed to an experience wine connoisseur. I must congratulate our foodmaster; Dennis Chamberlain for organising some memorable meals and interesting wine /food matching exercises. Some challenging matches at times worked, the Borsch beetroot soup with the Pascal Joylet Sancere Pouilly Fume comes to mind and other dishes were impossible to match, such as Peter Ford’s greek salad ‘cheese course’. I have learnt that, you never serve a red and a white with the same dish and a good dry sherry will go with a broad range of food. The approving nod from the cellarmaster has told me I have gone close to a good match. I hope, in my second year, I will be able to continue this challenging but enjoyable duty. Philip Dover

Invitation to the February 2009 Dinner and Annual General Meeting Members are advised that the 698th meeting will be on Thursday 18th February , 2009 At GEE CEES Ballarat At 7.00pm Food Master: Dennis Chamberlain Wine Master: Phil Dover Guests are most welcome. Dress –Lounge Suit Electronic banking via account: ANZ BSB 013 520 ACCOUNT 008699266 is recommended. Cost $120 per person Reply to DENNIS CHAMBERLAIN. 7 St Glen’s Way. Lake Gardens.3350 Chamberlain.Dennis.DK@edumail.vic.gov.au RSVP Monday 8th February

Cellarmaster’s report 10/2/2010 Mr President, gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to present the Cellar-master’s report for 2009. I trust that you will all have had a chance to look at the cellar list and associated information that should have come to you by e-mail (see link below). You may note that the two areas of interest probably relate to wines purchased for the year and wines that we have consumed during our various functions. The number of wines consumed is somewhat greater than the wines purchased, and I think this is a trend we will need to maintain. I have made every attempt to use my funds to purchase a smaller number of quality wines, which has basically been my philosophy during my five years as cellar-master. During this period I have managed to re-format the cellar into what I think is a user-friendly arrangement, both on paper and also in the cellar. With the help of Karin, I think we now have an Excell spreadsheet which allows the balance of wines to be adjusted on...