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	Name	Grape	Year	Origin	Shop	Normal Price
Wine 1	Isola	Zibibbo	2016	Sicily, Italy	Aldi	£5·99
Wine 2	Faustino*	Viura/ Chardonnay	2017	La Rioja, Spain	Aldi	£5·99
Wine 3	Viña Albali	Tempranillo	2017	Valdepeñas,Spain	Asda	£4·50
Wine 4	McGuigan	Shiraz	2017	South Australia	Asda	£7·25
Wine 5	Cimarosa	Merlot	2016	California, USA	Lidl	£4·99
Wine 6	Animus	Touriga Blend	2015	Douro, Portugal	Aldi	£4·99

* This wine was an Aldi ‘Special’ so no longer on the shelves.

Frank’s new dinner list is out now – if you elected to join it, you should have received it by email from Frank.   A copy is available on the member’s only page.

Also Peter has just released the latest membership list.  Shout if your details are wrong.

Check out this event. 

When – 7th and 8th September 2018

Where – Lymm Village Hall, Pepper Street

https://www.lymmbeerfest.co.uk/

There is a big turnout at the Much Wenlock Wine Circle caravan meet up.

 Walking, bbqs, Gin Club and socialising are being enjoyed by all.

We sampled a very nice white wine – ‘Glenridge Point’    Sauvignon Blanc   2017   Marlborough  New Zealand  

Sainsbury’s on offer at £ 6.50 reduced from £ 7.50

 We had a very interesting talk by Angela Brabin on “Victorian Women and Poison”.  Not only did we learn that you can get enough arsenic from a fly paper to kill a man but also that newspapers sometimes embellish the truth!!

19 people turned up. 12 people bowled. The 7 who didn’t play had a good happy chat! And chat! And chat!

The standard of bowling was very high and competitive., it was good to see Graham Hughes playing a couple of games ( notlost his touch).

I mixed people up this year, with bowlers playing with non-bowlers. It worked very well, the non-bowlers were exceptionally good.

The weather stayed dry, much against the forecast.

Everybody played 4 games to – 11 up- with lunch sandwiched ( Ha! Ha!) in between.

It was a very tight finish with Joan and David just pipping Jenny and Graham H (with help from Geoff)

I think everybody went home happy, it was a nice afternoon.

LAST CLUB NIGHT

We had a very interesting tasting and talk from Alison at Boutinot Wines. 

The Booths own-label wines we tasted were :-

Prosecco	Italy	11.5%	£9.95
Rosé	France	13.0%	£10.50
Chenin Blanc	South Africa	13.0%	£7.50
Cinsault	South Africa	13.5%	£7.50
Fleurie	France	13.0%	£10.00
Port	Portugal	19.5%	£11.00

NEXT CLUB NIGHT  – August 15^th

This is to be a talk by Angela Brabin on Victorian Women and Poison. There will also be a wine to taste at the end of the talk.

There will be a slight change to the programme printed on your Programme of Events.

The Call my Bluff tasting will be at the September meeting and Denis’ talk and tasting  on Fortified Wines will be in February.

Bowling Afternoon

Date – August 12th. The venue is Oughtrington Bowling Club staring at 12, finishing 5pm. Bring a picnic and Graham and Olwen are providing tea and coffee. 

POPPIES

After our success with the Christmas tree at St Mary’s we have been asked to contribute to their display to celebrate 100 years since the ending of the First World War. They are wanting to create a poppy cascade, similar to the one at the Tower of London. They have asked if we could make poppies – knitted, crocheted or any other craft based poppy. 

Crafty Winos

Several of our members were busy making poppies for the St Mary’s church appeal.

JUNE  WALK

The walk started from The Dormouse Tea Room at Daresbury on a glorious day and the sun shone for the whole walk. 

We headed south from Daresbury and found a small geocache ( for the uninitiated see Dave Roberts) We walked to Preston on the Hill village and down to the Bridgewater canal and followed the canal passed the Science Park and collapsed at the Dormouse for a light lunch.