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| Meeting Number | Date | Title | Wine Type | Evite Information | | I | | Friday, November 14, 2003 | | | | Gewurztraminer or Riesling | | You are most cordially invited to the first meeting of the Fruit of the VINE Club.
To launch our pilot meeting, we will initiate our palate with some of the lightest and fruitiest white wines-Gewurztraminer and Riesling.
Please arrive promptly at 7:30pm with a bottle of Gewurztraminer or Riesling wine. We ask that all bottles cost no more than $13.
We will have a blind tasting and evaluation. Meka and Greg will provide everything you will need-bread, cheese, fruit, water, stemware, bucket, and notepaper.
We look forward to a great beginning down a path of fun and enlightenment through the world of wine. | | | II | | Saturday, December 13, 2003 | | | | | For our second meeting of the Vine we have selected the holiday favourite of Beaujolais Nouveau. Please bring a bottle priced under $15 and let the tasting begin!
Beaujolais Nouveau is released on the third Thursday of November, you should have plenty of time to select a creative bottle | | | III | Saturday, January 17, 2004 | | | Ah, the glory of the Italian Riviera right here in the middle of winter! Join us for Meeting III of the Fruit of the Vine Club.
This month's meeting will be hosted by Dave Costantino and the wine selection will be just like Dave-It's Italian, It's Red, It's Italian Reds!
Please bring any Red Wine from Italy (under $15) Saturday and enjoy an exotic tasting and fresh antipasti provided by Dave. | | | IV | | Saturday, February 21, 2004 | | | | Who can take a sunrise,
Sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with chocolate
And a miracle or two?
The Dessert Wine Man Can
You are most cordially invited to attend February's Fruit of the Vine Club meeting.
This Wonkonian adventure will feature dessert wines, such as late harvests, icewines, Sauternes, and Muscats. Please bring a bottle under $25. Feel free to double up with someone if you want to get a more expensive wine (over $15).
Please do not bring any fortified wines-sherries and ports (we will taste those another time).
We will be serving a few light dessert options during this tasting.
Hope everyone can come and | | | V | | | | Washington and Oregon Wine | | Celebrate the Bounty of Early Spring with our salute to the coastal vineyards of Oregon.
Everyone attending should bring a bottle of either WHITE OR RED wine from Oregon priced under $15.
If you have a hard time finding a good Oregon wine, feel free to bring a bottle from Washington.
Aylene will be hosting and providing some native Oregonian snacks.
For information on Oregon wines visit:
http://www.oregonwines.com/
http://www.winesnw.com/orhome.html | | | VI | | | | Join us for our half-year mark at the FotV Club when we taste a selection of wines from Hawaii provided by Kate and a few other tropical wines to excite your nose. A petite Laue will be provided with Pineapple and Macadamia Nuts.
NO ONE SHOULD BRING ANY WINE THIS MONTH, EVERYONE WILL NEED TO BRING SOME MONEY TO COVER THE COST OF THE WINE, I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WHEN WE HAVE PURCHASED ALL THE WINE. | | | VII | | | | After our wild trip to the tropics, we are going back to the basics of wine for our May meeting with the classic world wine-Cabernet Sauvignon.
Chris Chandler will be hosting this month's meeting.
Everyone should bring a bottle of Cab priced under or around $15. Chris will be providing cheeses and bread. | | | VIII | | | | From the Queen of Reds to the King of Whites, June's meeting will lead us not into temptation but deliver us from tannin with CHARDONNAY! World regions to consider include: Sonoma and Napa, Oregon, Chile, South Africa, France, and Australia.
Amy and Matt will be hosting this month's meeting.
Everyone should bring a bottle of Chardonnay priced under or around $15. | | | IX | | | | Champagne and other sparkling wines | | In Honour of our winningest wine selector-Jenny's last wine tasting of the year we will be celebrating the FotV Club's ninth meeting with sparkling wine and Champagne! Jenny and Kirsten will be hosting and providing strawberries, bleu cheese, and bread.
Each person needs to bring $15 to PAY for the wines that Jill, Jenny, and Kirsten will be selecting. Please do not bring any wine this month. They will purchase the wines about one week prior to the tasting and we will buy as much as we have money for. Please make a firm commitment to attend. Any extra money will be given back to everyone and if anyone does not show, everyone else will need to provide more money. | | | X | | Saturday, August 21, 2004 | | | | After our sparkling soiree last month, we are dressing down our tasting with box and jug wines this month.
Please bring a box or jug wine priced under $10 and we will provide some Ritz crackers and hot dogs. | | | XI | | Sunday, September 26, 2004 | | | | After an amazing stint down under, Jill Jennings will dazzle us with tales of dilly dingos and verdant vegemite while we sample wines from one of the best up and coming wine regions in the world-Australia.
Please bring a bottle of Australian Wine priced under $15. Light Aussie Appetizers will be provided by Jill. See you all then. | | XII | | Saturday, October 16, 2004 | | | | For our one year Wine Club Anniversary we will be returning to our traditional European Roots with a tribute to German Wine! And in the fine words of RENT:
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
Vaclav Havel - The Sex Pistols, 8BC,
To no shame - never playing the Fame Game
To marijuana!
Please bring a bottle of German Wine priced under $15. Light Deutschland Appetizers will be provided by Kate. See you all then. | | XIII | | Sunday, November 21, 2004 | | | | All things strange and unusual from the vine. | | "Let the wild rumpus start!"
It's time for another fun and frivolous wine party. This month, Meka and Greg will be hosting Wild Wines! We will celebrate the unusual, the strange, the crazy, the down right wild wines of the world!
Please bring a bottle of the most unusual and creative Wine priced under $15 you can find. Light Crazy Appetizers will be provided by Meka and Greg. See you all then. | | | XIV | | Friday, December 10, 2004 | | | | For this most blustery of tastings we will be having dinner and tasting a variety of designer flavoured vodkas. So bring your parka, a good appetite, and some money to help cover the cost of Dinner and Drinks.
See you all on Friday! | | | XV | | Saturday, January 22, 2005 | | | | A blind tasting of traditional varietals to select Varietals, Vintage, and Terroir | | Its time to ring in the New Year with the first annual FotV Club Wineopoly! Competition.
Each person should bring a wine (priced under $15) in a brown paper bag. The wine should be:
A common single varietal (i.e. Merlot, Syrah, or Pinot Gris)
From a specific vintage (1999, 2002) and
A specific region (CA, Italy, France, Washington).
We will divide into groups and blind test each wine. No one will have any idea of what we are tasting. The team will discuss and attempt to answer three questions:
What is the varietal?
What is the vintage?
What is the region?
Whoever gets the most correct will win a wine prize! Don't worry, none of us will be very good to start, this is just for fun. Can't wait to see everyone there!
I'm not sure who is providing snacks this month. I do know that Cherylynne will be hosting Dessert Wines Deux in Feb. and Kate will be hosting in March. Look for upcoming announcements.
| | | XVI | | Friday, February 18, 2005 | | | | It was so popular last year it has returned, the Fruit of the Vine Club's annual Dessert Wine Gala.
Each person should bring a sweet dessert wine (priced under $20). Try not to bring portos or sherries, that is another theme. Cherylynne will be providing the goodies. | | | XVII | | | | "Uh, I don't know, I don't know. Um, it's a hard grape to grow, as you know. Right? It's uh, it's thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. It's, you know, it's not a survivor like Cabernet, which can just grow anywhere and uh, thrive even when it's neglected. No, Pinot needs constant care and attention. You know? And in fact it can only grow in these really specific, little, tucked away corners of the world. And, and only the most patient and nurturing of growers can do it, really. Only somebody who really takes the time to understand Pinot's potential can then coax it into its fullest expression. Then, I mean, oh its flavors, they're just the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and... ancient on the planet." -Miles Raymond in SIDEWAYS.
In honour of Sideways' sucess with Oscar, we will salute the Bitchy Berries that are Pinot Noir.
Each person should bring a Pinot Noir wine (priced under $20). Kate will be providing the goodies. | | | XVIII | | | | I APOLOGIZE, BUT WE NEEDED TO CHANGE THE DATE OF THE WINE PARTY DUE TO UNFORCEN PROM ISSUES. THE WINE PARTY WILL BE TWO WEEKS LATER ON SATURDAY, APRIL 30 AT 7PM. I HOPE YOU ALL CAN COME.
To Mix things up a little, this month we will taste blended wines. Heck, we can't identify any single varietal so lets shake things up! Blended wines are composed from multiple grape varitals are and abundant. Some popular blends include:
Many Champagnes
Most Bordeaux
California Meritages
Cab/Shriaz
Cab/Merlot
Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon
Evolution
Each person should bring a blended varietal wine (priced under $15). Jill will be providing the goodies. | | XIX | | | | To celebrate Spring, we will cross the pond over to Espana. Classic Spanish varietals to look for include:
Tempranillo
Garnacha
Mazuelo
Viura
Malvasia
Each person should bring a Spanish wine (priced under $15). Cherylynne will be providing Tapas Treats. | | XX | | | | Following up our... interesting foray into Spanish wines we will stay in Ibearia and add fruit to our Spanish Wines with Sangria.
Everyone should partner up and bring a homemade or purchased white or red Sangria. Steph and Mike will be providing Spanish Treats.
Traditional Recipe:
1 1/2 L Red wine
1 cup Sugar
1 large Lemon, sliced
1 large Orange, sliced
1 large Apple, cut into thin sections
3-4 oz plain Brandy
Soda water | | XXI | | | Le Printemps Annuel Gotant des d'Union Grandiose Crus de Bordeaux | | | A Bordeaux wine tasting and Murder Mystery | | Le Printemps Annuel Gotant des d'Union Grandiose Crus de Bordeaux
Le Saint-Emilion de Anglus de Chteau
Mars 27, 2001 (le 23 juillet, 2005)
Le des d'Union Grandiose Crus vous invite assister le Printemps Annuel Gotant le Gala d'Ouverture. Une slection de vins de Bordeaux sera servie pour accompagner Hor'dourves lourd.
Les affaires Habit de match nul formel/noir
Chaque Personne sera demande d'amener $15 pour le vin et Hor'dourves. | | XXII | | | Chilean Wine tasting | After hearing back from you all, the last Friday in August worked for the most people. No one recommended a theme so I thought we might want to go south of the border, way south, to one of the premiere viniculture regions in South America.
Sing it with me now.
I want my Char Do Nay, Char Do Nay, Char Do Nay, GRAPES.
I want my Char Do Nay, Char Do Nay, Char Do Nay, GRAPES.
Chile's Chardonnay grapes.
Chile's Chardonnay grapes.
French Oak Barrels.
Please join us Friday night for a Chilean Wine tasting. Everyone should bring a bottle of Chilean wine priced under $15 (Chile has some great values). I didn't get anyone to host so I guess it's up to me. Please let me know if you have any good ideas for Chilean food. I have no idea.
See you then. | | XXIII | | Friday, September 23, 2005 | | | | After an outbreak of Phylloxera Vastatrix, the wine group has decided to return to our rootstock, so September's tasting will focus on Wines from our state.
Please join us Friday night for a Colorado Wine tasting. Everyone should bring a bottle of Colorado wine priced under $15. Lauren Wright will be providing local treats.
See you then. | | XXIV | | | | We will celebrate our Second Anniversary not with the traditional Cotton and not with the modern China but with FEAR!
It's time to let your lees out of your barrels and bring a wine that frightens you. It could be a scary-themed wine: Vampire or 7 Deadly Zins or just a wine you are personally afraid of, for me any Merlot of course or maybe an Ecco Domani. An unusual wine from Hungary or a unique wine from rice or fruit would be great as well. The full moon (and $15) is the limit.
The great Michelle and Dougan will be providing spooky snacks-they are the best! Hope to see you all at this scarefully delicious tasting.
NOTE: Wine costumes are not required but would inspire awe from your hosts. | | XXV | | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 | | | | Mulled Wine, drinking chocolate bar, and a wine gift exchange | | Huzzah to the Holidays and Huzzah to our returning friends. I know the day is kinda weird but I hope you can come to celebrate the holiday season with two of our old friends. Tina and Amy will be in attendance on the 21st to enjoy a fun-filled evening of food, wine, and holiday cheer.
Meka and I will be providing Mulled Wine and Holiday Hot Drinking Chocolate.
You are welcome to bring a little plate of treats or a bottle of Mead (honey-wine).
In addition, we will be doing a white elephant-style wine gift exchange. Everyone who wants to participate, please bring a fun and inexpensive bottle of wine wrapped or in a bag. We will pick numbers and fight over the wine.
I know its on a weird day but I hope you can come by for a little while.
Happy Secular Non-deominational Winter Holiday Season | | XXVI | | Wineopoly II | | A blind tasting of traditional varietals to select Varietal, Vintage, and Terroir | | You are challenged to the Second Annual Denver Wineopoly Competition.
Modeled after a LoDo restaurant concept, we will break into teams and attempt to descern three components of the wines that are brought. Each team needs to uncover the wine's:
Varietal (Grape)
Vintage (Year)
Vinicultural Area (State/Country)
The team with the most points at the end of the evening wins.
Please bring a bottle of wine with a single varietal, vintage, and vinicultural area priced under $15. No blended wines and try to choose some fairly classic wines.
Steph and Matt will be hosting the food for this month.
Good Luck! | | XXVII | MIS NUMBERED MEETING | | | | | XXVIII | | Friday, February 24, 2006 | | | | Every February we celebrate the middle of winter by getting all Sugary. So up your Brix score and come enjoy the sweetiest wines around: Dessert Wines.
Some Dessert wines include:
Icewines
Late Harvest Wines
Sauternes
Muscats
Tokay Wines
High Sugar Sparkling wines.
(MOST DESSERT WINES ARE IN HALF BOTTLES-375ML)
Please bring a bottle of dessert wine priced around $15. Some dessert wines can be expensive so feel free to double up and get a better wine!
Cherylynne will be providing some sweet treats to tempt us all. | | XXIX | | | | Well it looks like tax season didn't give us all those huge refunds we were looking for so the theme for March is CHEAP WINE. Yes, get creative and fun and bring a cheap bottle of wine.
Please bring a bottle of any wine priced at no more than $7.
Monique will be providing some cheap eats for us to enjoy. | | XXX | | | | After a parade of unusual wine themes usually followed by unusual shots and flasks we are going back to basics with one of the most common but difficult to understand wines.
The theme for April is CHARDONNAY. You can find amazing Chardonnays in almost every region in the world. From the tropical notes of South Australian to the heavy-handed oak aged Sonomas to the classic crispness of Burgundy, you can find the perfect Chardonnay to fit your palate.
Please bring a bottle of any wine priced at no more than $20. Feel free to double up with people for better wine.
If anyone would like to provide some oak chips and dip for us to enjoy, please let me know. | | XXXI | | | | The theme for May is the never ending name debate: Shiraz and Syrah.
The Aussies call it Sherazz and the French say Serine but we all call it delicious; strong, rich,with aromas of pepper, violet and raspberry.
Shiraz and Syrah are both names for the same red wine grape. This grape is most definitely NOT the same as Petit Sirah, a different red wine grape grown mostly in California.
Please bring a bottle of wine priced at no more than $20. Please feel free to double up with people and bring a single bottle of better wine. Cetta will be providing some spicy goodies for us to enjoy. | | XXXII | | | | Well its been a few months since we have had hard liquor and no the cheap wine party does NOT count. So, by request we are going to break out Meka's Commeroative Arches National Park Glasses and have a
SHOTS PARTY
Everyone should bring a mixture or the ingredients for your favourite Shot. Cost doesn't matter. Food doesn't matter. Just bring enough to share with at least a dozen people. Who will win?
Sex With An Alligator
Buttery Nipple
Brain Hemmorhage
Homer Simpson
Girl Scout Cookie
Purple Rain
We will provide shot glasses, please bring anything else you may need and the receipe for us to share. See you then! | | XXXIII | | | | Wines on sale at Total Beverage | | NOTE THE EARLY TIME AND DIFFERENT LOCATION!
For our Thirty-Third party we will be journeying North. Up to the land of cheap wine-TOTAL BEVERAGE.
We will all meet up PROMPTLY at Steph Mulford's house in Thornton, Right next to Total Beverage, at 6pm and go over together. They do a Friday night wine tasting until 7pm so we will leave Steph's house promptly at 6PM. All you will need to bring is cash because for this party, after we taste we will each all buy a bottle of wine and go have it back at Steph's.
http://www.totalbeverage.net/
| | XXXIV | | Saturday, August 19, 2006 | | | | NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION!
For this month we will be assisting two of our great club members: Jen and Kyle with their wine selection for their wedding. Everyone will bring a wine from the possibilities list for service at their wedding. Hope to see you at there place.
There is a list of wines for people to bring. Once you sign up for one, please bring it so we dont have duplicates. If people know of a white wine (other than chardonnay) that might go well with chicken kiev, is a common brand, and $8-10 / bottle........that's fine too. (As long as we would be able to order it through the distributor or find it on our own.) That would be great if people brought Rosemount Estate whites as well.
Menu at the reception:
Chicken kiev, Brocolli salad, Baked potato
Marble cake w/ rasberry filling and buttercream frosting
| | XXXV | | Friday, September 15, 2006 | | | The Seed that with the Sun's Love | | | Check out the new and developing Fruit of the Vine Club WEBSITE:
www.fruitvineclub.org
Back to basics, and I do mean Basics. For the September wine party we will go back to the beginning with everyone's starter wine. Call it Blush, Rose, or just Pink, These are some of the most fun and most varied wines. Please try to stay away from the traditional White Zin. Try a Spanish Rosado or a French grenache or even a rose sparling wine. There are tons out there. Meka and I will be providing food.
http://www.wineanorak.com/rosay.htm |
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