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September 2009
News
The September 2008 membership meeting of the Wisconsin Vintners
Association will begin at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, September 9th at
Clifford’s
Restaurant, 10418 Forest Home Ave, Hales Corners, WI. Harvest time is fast
approaching so for our program this month, Jim Remus will present a
detailed overview of the winemaking process, concentrating on fruit wines.
While this will greatly benefit our newest members, our experienced members will
be asked to offer their knowledge and experience to the discussion. Please bring
a bottle of your favorite fruit wine to share as evidence of your winemaking
technique.
For the past few years now, each month we awarded a bottle of wine to one of our
members who had dinner at
Clifford’s
prior to the monthly meeting. We will continue this tradition again this
year. Please plan on joining the group for dinner, starting around 6:00
PM, before our membership meeting. The award wine this month is a bottle
of Chateau Les Gentis, a 2003 Bordeaux. “This is a medium bodied un-oaked,
Merlot-based Bordeaux. A delightfully fragrant wine with aromas of cherry
and spice. It will be good with pork, fowl and pasta dishes.”
President's Blog
Thanks to Bill and Karen Schneider, George and
Mary Scovronski, Tim Larsen, Al Downs and Tom Courtney for a great
WVA picnic. I was unable to attend, but I understand we had a good
attendance, plenty of chicken and corn, games and no rain. Our new season starts
with our September meeting at
Clifford’s,
so check out the meeting notice. We are creating a list of areas in which we
need help for the 2009-2010 WVA year. Please consider volunteering for one
of these tasks and assignments that will be published soon.
Howard Hasselkus
The Weather Was Near Perfect
Our annual club picnic was held on Saturday, August
15. It was a nice summer day for eating grilled sweet corn, rotisserie
chicken and a host of potluck hors d’oeuvres, salads, potato dishes and
desserts. A disinterested person walking past our great picnic spot could
have spotted what looked like a wine bottle for each of the 73 in attendance.
This person would have also seen our group enjoying the wine, good food and each
other while also having fun participating in the bean bag throw and washer throw
contests. The team of Pat and Marge Marcella won the washer throw
event. Dean Grulke along with his partner Jim Remus won the bean
bag throw this year. Thanks to Jerry Horzewski's granddaughters for their
help in running and recruiting the players for the games.
Al and Mary Downs again this year brought their restored Model A mail truck
along with their blackberry merlot and peach belinni slush makers on the back.
A big thanks goes out to the picnic committee, Bill & Karen Schneider and
George & Mary Scovronski for their hard work in making sure that everything
was just right. Thanks to Tom and Linda Courtney for bringing the
chicken, to Tim Larsen for bringing and organizing the corn and to
Chuck Howell and Rick Markham for doing the grilling. Thanks also to
Chuck & Mary Howell and Rick and Jo Markham for helping set up for the
event.
It's Annual Dues Time Again
It's the start of another club year and that means it's dues time.
The cost of a membership remains at $15.00 for a year of informative
meetings, wine tastings, access to grapes and juice, other
subsidized club events and just plain fun with people bonding
together with a similar passion, home winemaking.
Please send your check, payable to the Wisconsin Vintners
Association, to our treasurer Mike Bell at 612 Fairview Ave,
South Milwaukee, WI 53172 or bring it to the next meeting.
Please use the included dues payment form that will also help us
update our files with any member contact changes since last year.
Club Members Receive More Wine Competition Awards
The Vilas County Fair recently held its amateur wine competition and
a total of 69 wines were entered. Congratulations to Howard
Hasselkus who entered 19 wines and received ten First Place,
seven Second Place and two Third Place ribbons.
Congratulations also to David Korb who won two silver metals
for his Frontenac/Foch blend and Foch/Leon Millot blend in the
Fermentors International Trade Associaiton (formerly known as the
HWBTA) wine competition.
Board of Directors for 2009/2010
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President: Howard Hasselkus
(one year)
Vice President: Thomas Courtney (one year)
Recording Secretary: David Brandt (one year)
Corresponding Secretary: Don Betlej (one year)
Treasurer: Mike Bell (one year)
Sergeant-at-Arms: Mary Howell (one year)
Trustees: Len Montalbano (two years), George Scovronski
(one year)
Board Members-at-Large: Rick Markham (two years), Mike
Szabo (two years), Erv Herman (one year), F Jerry Wanty (one
year)
Calendar of Events
September 9th Wednesday - Membership meeting at
Clifford’s
in Hales Corners, WI, 7:30 PM
October 7th Wednesday - Board of Directors
meeting at the home of Rick & Jo Markham, 7:00 PM
October 14th Wednesday - Membership meeting
at
Clifford’s in Hales Corners, WI, 7:30 PM
November 4th Wednesday - Board of Directors
meeting at the home of Mike Szabo, 7:00 PM
Special Thanks To Clifford's
For The Use Of Their Hall!
10418 W. FOREST
HOME AVE
HALES CORNERS, WI
(414) 425-6226
www.cliffordsfinefood.com
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