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  Currently, the Ballarat Wine and Food Society Cellar is in good shape. The new database makes preparing reports easy (see attached). I have been a little slow on buying wines for the cellar - restricted space and Victor Gibson are my excuses.  I have some deliveries due, which will go in in due course.  The overall buying strategy has been to source variety (trying to provide wines that we would not usually drink at home) and quality.  I am deliberately avoiding wines that don't deliver value (for example, I will buy premium Australian Cabernets rather than mediocre bordeaux). Please see the attached report of the current state of your cellar. Cheers All, shaun https://www.mediafire.com/file/9qwkdzvcao6qyvj/W%2526FS_report_2022.pdf/file

  Annual Treasurer’s Report Financial Year Ending 30 June 2021 ·        The 2020/2021 financial year started with an opening balance of $11,867. The closing balance as 30 June 2021 was $14,152.  ·        The society Bank account remains with ANZ Bank the account keeping fees total $125 for the financial year.  ·        The financial accounts are being audited by Sharp Accounting (Glen Sharp) and will be loaded up online on the Society Website once completed.   It is recommended that cellar fees remain at $500 p.a. Dinner Fees at $150 per dinner for Members and $120 for guest.     A treasurer prepared income and expenses summary statement for the last three financial years below. ·        The income collected for dinner and cellar fees total $28,531.  The expenses can be split as follows: §    Dinner Expenses repres...

  Members of the Society,   Whilst we continued our little game of cat and mouse with COVID over the past 12 months, we managed only to miss out on our September dinner. Since then things have been somewhat normal and it was great to see Bob being able to once again make the trip up from the big smoke to participate.   We did pull the pin on the second attempt to hold the Victor Gibson weekend in October 2021 but we were delighted to finally deliver the event recently this March. Suffice to say, that the entire weekend was a complete success. We had 103 registered dignitaries over the full weekend of events, toped off with 101 of them attending a wonderful evening at The Mining Exchange for the formal Black Tie, Federation of Wine and Food Societies Australia 25 th  Commemorative Victor Gibson Dinner.   The weekend events were well supported by our members and I hope that you enjoyed all that was on offer. I wish to extend a heartfelt thankyou and congratulation...