Eat, drink, banquet and be merry

Whether it’s a cocktail party for a couple of dozen guests or scores of friends and family celebrating at a wedding reception, the FCC takes it all in its stride and has over the years organised and hosted hundreds of special events for members.

“Of course, we have plenty of venues, from the sunny purlieus of the Dining Room and the Verandah to the more intimate space of Bert’s, as well as the Hughes Room and the Burton Room,” says Operations Manager Carmen Chan.

“We can lay on a variety of catering packages to suit any sort of gathering.”

Got something coming up? Make contact with the banqueting team via banquet@fcchk.org. In order to make the best use of the club’s outlets, some days are not available for banqueting, for example Friday lunch in the Dining Room, which is its busiest day in the week.

Going For a Spin

Amazing to record, nobody spotted the homophone (revue/review, page 1 of the last issue of The Correspondent) that was the central feature of the January competition. So, in the best Mark Six tradition, the prize (one entire bottle of Domaines Barons de Rothschild Chateau Duhart-Milon 2011, worth HK$610) rolls over to this issue. Plus – get this –there’s another bottle too; white wine this time. More of this anon.

Here’s the brain-teaser: what special something might have induced John Anthony Thwaites, the British Consul-General in Katowice, to lend his official limo to tyro ourno Clare Hollingworth to go snooping around the border in the days prior to the outbreak of the second world war? The answer is fairly plainly rendered in her biography, Of Fortunes and War.

Sussed it? Then email the correct answer to editor@fcchk.org with the sub ect line ud e ud e Wink Wink”. The eighth member to respond wins, and should present the editor’s congratulatory reply at the Front Desk to claim both prize bottles.

Note: Board members (who will have seen the blueprint), their relatives and intimates, and anyone else associated with the production of the magazine are not eligible to enter. he editor s decision is final so there.

And that second bottle of vin? It’s a Puligny-Montrachet Domaine Francois Carillon Cote de Beaune, Burgundy France 2018, selling for HK$880, since you ask. Barely able to contain his excitement, F&B Manager Michael Chan describes it thus: White owers on the nose, taut and chiselled, leading into a wonderfully saline, mineral, textured palate, which has both intense, expressive fruit and a super fine, detailed structure. It comes to a point beautifully on the finish, with bris acidity complementing a sense of driven persistence.” So now you know.