The Wine Century Club

A couple of years ago I qualified for membership in the Wine Century Club by completing my application listing 100 wine grape varieties I had tasted. At the time,

this seemed like a lot and the idea of getting to 200 seemed unimaginable, so I just relaxed, framed my certificate and hung it on the wall in the wine cellar. I also purchased the DeLong Grape Varieties deluxe wall chart package. [~ $30]The chart resembles the periodic table of elements. We also purchased one for grandson, Chris and our friend, Cristi from the Buzz, who was studying to be a certified Sommelier. She has hers beautifully framed and hanging in the Buzz coffee/wine Café. There are now quite a number of regional century club tasting groups, meeting to widen the education of members and increase the number of varietals tasted. Here is a link to the Wine Century Club where you can apply for membership.

Boise Wine Club

Sometimes, especially this time of year, Boise feels like it is Restless .... always moving. On December 26, 2010, the Boise Wine Club held their third wine tasting at the Red Feather
Lounge in downtown Boise. Tonight the tasting included some wonderful wines from Austria and Portugal.

Usually, there is no charge for this monthly event, just bring a bottle of themed wine to share. But it was decided that in order to have a Waite Person assigned to us by the Red Feather Lounge, we will start to charge a nominal fee of $10.00 per person and still bring a bottle of wine to share. We hope that you enjoy these photos of the evening party and we thank the Red Feather Lounge and their staff for their hospitality. They are always so very gracious and we do enjoy ourselves. Let's start with the wines Robin and I took and some Appetizers.

These are the wines that Robin and I took. The variety of others was great.

Country Pâté
(Pâté Maison Terrine)

Duck Confit

Cheese Plate

Here are the folks that attended. It was good to meet some new ones and see some of the others again.

Cameron

Jack and Kerry

Adele and Sean

Bobby

Bobby decants a port while Ted (hidden) and Michelle look on.

Michelle

Scott

Cheers!