The end - and the beginning

By Kelly

After sniffing, swirling and tasting our way through eight weeks of Leanne Hayward's Wine Appreciation course, sadly it has come to an end. But how can we leave it there? Especially with our extensive new vocabulary of smell and taste descriptors.....model airoplane cement indeed!!!

At the end of the course we are left with eight people who share a love of wine (all wine) and are partial to a bit of chow as well. So what was there to do but start a club so that we may extend our eight weeks of wine appreciation indefinitely.

What's in a name
After much discussion, a short list and a vote we have decided to call ourselves Decanter Banter as we think it is unpretentious and a bit fun.

We are going to be meeting monthly to score wines we have chosen based on the host's theme, however in the mean time, various members of the group will hopefully be blogging here about themselves and what they're drinking. Stay tuned!

The graduation dinner

Before we were sent out into the big wide world, Leanne, and those of us that were available on a Tuesday night caught up for a meal at Tran's in Mosman. L-r in the photo are: Kelly, Lim, Leanne, Stephanie and Adam. John is taking the photo.


Absent are: Wayne, Steve and Claudia