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Convenor: Naveen Gupta | Article by: Naveen Gupta
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The Wine Circle continues its onwards journey with its monthly events. The Circle was able to successfully pivot to virtual events and has been consistently organising wine tastings each month.
For October, the Circle organized an event titled “Insight into the world of Chinese wines”. Only a few of us know that China is not just a big market for wines but also produces and exports wines of a high quality. The event featured some of the top wineries from some of the best wine-growing regions of China, namely Ningxia & Xinjiang. It was a maiden event on Chinese wines for SCC and it was well received. The speaker, Ms Purple Gao, gave a well-researched and informative talk on the Chinese wines. The surprise was the speaker from Grace Vinyard - one of the leading wineries featured in the virtual wine event.
NOVEMBER’S “FONTERRA VIRTUAL WINE & CHEESE TASTING
For November, the Circle curated a unique event wherein they had Fonterra - one of the world’s prominent cheese companies - sponsoring the event. Fonterra organised a speaker who spoke of the pairing of different cheeses with different wines. It was indeed a unique twist to the conventional pairing of wine with cheese. As in the past, this event also had a full house with vibrant interactions between the speaker and the attendees. The icing on the cake was the value delivered to the members wherein each attendee was delivered five samples of wine, five slabs of cheese (750gm with two of them being very premium cheeses) and home delivery – all at a price of SGD 18. The actual cost of the event was over SGD 85 and offered at an 80% concession to the Wine Circle Members.
As for all the events, the sponsors of the above events made an extremely attractive one-time offer to the attendees for any purchase of their products. The Circle also announced the offering of a Wine Circle logo embossed premium 100% cotton polo shirt complementary to all its Members. This is in addition to the lapel pin which had already been offered complimentary in September. The Circle continues its strong march and has already offered its Members a value which is several times their annual subscription, thus making joining the Section an easy decision.
