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Salutations all,

Can anyone recommend where or what to look at when searching for a club or group with the aim of joining or organising tastings ?

I'm new to the forum and have been collecting since 2000. Quite recently I've moved beyond simply choosing a bottle or two and started to string together some blind tastings. Suffice to say I'm really interested in exploring this further.

Thanks.
DC

What city are you in? (Update your profile so it shows).

I've got some hints and guidelines for running a tasting group on my site, but it's in the subscribers area.

If you're in Sydney, I am in a tasting group, but would like to start another one closer to home (Lower North Shore)...???

Cuttlefish

I would certainly be interested in starting up a regular tasting of sorts if you are in Brisbane. I also know of a couple of others who would also be keen...

Tim

I have to wait seven days to update my profile (anti Spam) but I’m in Sydney, so no luck for Tim.

I live in Bondi Junction, so for me Lower North Shore is fine.

RB, I have visited over the years, so perhaps I’ll subscribe and grab your tips. Thanks for the reply.

DC

SnLDS?

A little esoteric for me??????

Sydney long drink society, should never let di@#heads send, anti spam??????

9redpens wrote:A little esoteric for me??????

Sydney long drink society, should never let di@#heads send, anti spam??????

Refers to the Sydney Label drinkers society. A high stakes wine drinking group which comprises of some members of this board as well as the other two.

cheers

Carl

Where n= non

dave vino wrote:Where n= non

Where do I sign up?

cheers

Carl

I'm keen to join a tasting group and I've scoured the net but with little results - any tips gratefully accepted

I'm in inner north melbourne.

Ta

SnLDS….. some dizzying heights implied in the name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m not sure how often a night of Krug could be on the cards?

Most recently I tasted the 02 heritage Shiraz’s (cheap) and I threw in two Semillons to start, 92 Vat 1 and a 03 Beaumont.

Next plan is an Abbots prayer vertical.

DC

Well the SLDS bottles are usually in the thousands, ours I envisage would be around the $40-$150 mark. Think Rockford BP, Clonakilla SV, LEAS Chard, Giaconda Chard, Henschke Mount Edelstone, St Henri, etc, etc...

Then we would have the cheap and cheerful nights with ones under $30 only with gourmet wood fired pizzas. Think Longflat Shiraz, Tahbilk Marsanne, Filsell Shiraz, MP Elizabeth Sem, Hoddles Creek Pinot etc...

The only sticking point is getting someone to actually organise them.

Rawshack,

I, too, am in Melbourne, but in the outer suburbs, although I work in the CBD.

Let's get something going in the first month or so of 2009 if you're keen. I consider BYO to be mandatory. There's a lot of the Melbourne folk around, but not enough offlines.

PJ.

It can happen quite quickly and quite happily. I joined Melbourne East Offline several years ago via the old Winepros site and it has been a very successful group that grew organically among unknowns from an internet forum. May I suggest one thing which has been remarkable over the years: 7 people. 7. It is a great number for each to have a tasting serve. It is just a great number to share bottles. Any more and you lose focus and fewer means less variety and diminished breadth of knowledge and enjoyment.

Good luck and all the best.
You might find your group becomes a happy vinous version of Hotel California...

Neville K wrote:Good luck and all the best.
You might find your group becomes a happy vinous version of Hotel California...

So I called up the captain, "please bring me my wine"
He said, "we haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine"