April 23, 2009 Meeting Minutes

Space Coast Wine Guild
Meeting Minutes
April 2009

Meeting Date: April 23, 2009
Time: 7:45 p.m.
Guests: Chris Schumacher
Attendance: 20

Our meeting was brought to order with the reading of the March minutes and Treasurer’s report.

Old business:

President, Donnie Nettles, thanked everyone for coming to the annual picnic which was held at the Nettles home. Everyone who attended seemed to have a good time. The horseshoe tournament was especially fun as everyone could participate.

The May meeting will be our guest, Chef Bob, from BCC Culinary Instructor in Cocoa.

The website is up and running. Our guest, Chris Schumacher, actually found us by looking at the web site.

New Business:

Mark Stephens asked if anyone was interested in sending wines off to the NOWG Wine Competition in Ohio. Anyone interested should let us know and the shipping could be split for sending the wines. Entry is $10 per entrant (not per bottle)—very inexpensive. This club has at least two or more AWS Trained Judges.

Terri Johnson may approach the Rumples about a possible boat ride in the fall—possibly November since there will not be a meeting in November.

Mary Shaw mentioned they would be going on a Wine Cruise from a New Smyrna Reunion. They will report back to us if it is worthwhile for the club to take a similar cruise sometime.

Kreutzer Garman will be going to North Carolina for a month. If anyone is interested in buying Duplin wines, please contact Duplin Winery to order your wines with credit card number. Kreutzer will return to Florida on May 25, so place your order by May 20.

A motion to close the meeting was made by Mary Shaw, seconded by Bill Snavely.

Following our meeting was a demonstration done by Donnie and Betty Nettles with levels of acids and levels of sugar in a bland wine. The object was to put the acids and sugars in the order from lowest amount to the highest amount of acid and sugar. Although, we had a small group for this experiment, those who participated in January 2005 are now getting much better at detecting the levels.

Respectively submitted,

Betty Nettles, Secretary
Space Coast Wine Guild