The Annual General Meeting will be held at the Deaf Hawkes Bay Rooms, 22 Lee Road, Taradale at 7.30pm on the 20th April. Members please bring visitors for introduction and anyone else interested in our club and its activities please … Continue reading →
A smaller turnout for this meeting but it was an interesting one. Brian, our President, dealt with club matters and presented certificates to last month’s competition medal winners. It was noted that the Central Region’s competitions are to be hosted … Continue reading →
After the formal part of the evening Norman gave a very informative talk and demos on aspects of wine and beer making. He created a triangulation tasting of two of the five basic tastes, acid and sweetness and then where both acid … Continue reading →
The Avis’s hosted our annual BBQ where we host members of the Central Hawkes Bay Winemakers and Brewers Club. A large contingent from their club attended and both clubs enjoyed a social get together of drinks and nibbles. This was followed … Continue reading →
This years function is to be held at our clubrooms, 22 Lee Road, Taradale on our normal club night, the 16th December. The format is to bring your preferred drink and a plate of nibbles or light finger food. There … Continue reading →
Our monthly meeting started with the Chairman thanking the whole club for all the work and help before and during the 20th National competitions and social weekend. Those not at the dinner were presented with their medals and certificates. It … Continue reading →
Many club members joined Tom’s family to farewell him at his funeral on the 26th November 2015. Many family tributes were given by his children and grandchildren, a testament of his standing with him. He was 72. Tom had been … Continue reading →
The November Meeting will be held at our clubrooms on 18th at 7.30pm at the Deaf Hawkes Bay rooms 22 Lee Road, Taradale. The October classes for the Points Cup completion are added to the November ones and will be … Continue reading →
After the great amount of work our members did to run the National Competitions it was decided that the would have an easy meeting by going out to dinner. The Thai Orchard was chosen and 15 members and partners had … Continue reading →
At last the weekend arrived. On the Thursday all 854 entries of wine, beer, liqueur and cider were transferred to the Angus Inn after being recorded and logged into “Results“, a programme designed by Brian to produce a complete set … Continue reading →
The September Meeting was given over to making final arrangements for the hosting of the 20th National Competition next month. All club members have volunteered to help on the setting up for judging and then the judging to be held … Continue reading →
Twenty members and visitors had a very busy meeting which started with Norm being made a life member of the club. Norm joined the club many years ago and has worked tirelessly over the years. He has held every office in the … Continue reading →
This meeting will take place at Deaf Hawkes Bay clubrooms 22 Lee Road Taradale at 7.30pm on the 19th August. We have Kate Radburnd from Pask Wines to judge the chardonnay wines made by club members. Pask supplied the juice … Continue reading →
After the formal part of the meeting which included an update from the committee on the latest arrangements for the running of the upcoming National competition we heard from Daniel McGuire, the Napier Port Manager of Customs Service. He gave … Continue reading →
This meeting will be held on the 15th July at our clubrooms, the Deaf Hawkes Bay rooms Lee St Taradale at 7.30pm. The speaker will be a rep from NZ Customs and he will give us run down on alcohol … Continue reading →