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.