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Cellar Club mid-winter dinner at Field & Green

262 Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington

European Soul Food

7 pm for 7:30 pm dinner – Wednesday 13th July

There will be the usual Club bubbles on arrival.

This promises to be a great evening at a very good restaurant. As of last weekend, we had reached our maximum of 48 people, which is very pleasing to the committee who view this as a huge reward for all the effort that goes into planning such events.

Wayne currently has a waitlist in operation in case COVID or some other sudden reason prevents someone from attending. If you find yourself in this situation, can you please let him know ASAP either by text to 027 452 3802 or email?

Next week you can expect to receive an email from Wayne giving you your seat number and the confirmation of what you have ordered. If that information is correct, you do not need to do anything apart from seeking out a bottle of wine to match your food. But if you need to change something or Wayne has misrecorded your choices, please get back to him urgently. That email will also include another copy of the menu.

If you intend to use public transport to get to the dinner, then simply get off the bus at Courtenay Place, walk down Allen St, turn left onto Wakefield Street and you will find the restaurant on your left approx. 30 metres.

As is usual, please try to arrive close to 7 pm as possible, as arriving too early can cause issues. Thanks in advance for your co-operation with this.

Menu

Entrees

Mushroom soup, Madeira cream
Smoked trevally soufflé, leek and chive sauce
Duck, prune and green peppercorn rillettes, toasted brioche, chutney

Mains

Roast tarakihi, cloudy bay clams, chorizo and braised fennel
Confit chicken leg, braised Savoy cabbage Toulouse sausage, lentils, lemon cream
Beef Bourguignon, pomme puree

Dessert

Treacle tart, clotted cream
Meringue roulade, passionfruit and raspberries, hazelnut praline
White and dark chocolate cheesecake, sour cherry compote

This menu includes the complimentary house-made sourdough bread with a house-made fennel gluten-free cracker is also available upon request.

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Screw Caps For Kidney Kids

Anne Megget & Wayne Kennedy with 27 bags of wine bottle screwcaps for Kidney Kids
Anne Megget & Wayne Kennedy with 27 bags of wine bottle screwcaps for Kidney Kids

The following appeared in the Independent Herald for the last week of April.

Members of a local wine club have been collecting screw caps off wine bottles for the last year and have amassed 27 bags full.

As each bag holds approximately 1300 caps – this is a lot of wine! (Remember 2020 was not a normal year), and that is a lot of metal not going into the landfill.

Vice President Anne Megget collects the caps from members, friends and neighbours, and when her cellar is overflowing with bags Treasurer Wayne Kennedy comes around with his trailer and takes them to Wellington Scrap Metal for recycling and this year they raised $215.40.

The Cellar Club is a Wellington-based social group that focuses on learning about and appreciating wine. It has been in existence for 40 years and provides wine education and experience through monthly presentations at the Community Centre Hall in Johnsonville.

Contact can be made through the website or to Anne.

Postscript

Wayne recently provided a plastic bread bag fill with wine tops and neck labels. The latter is also aluminium and equally collectable. Being retired he decided to check out just how many bottles had been consumed. The bag weighed 556 grams and contained 167 tops and 107 neck labels. The problem was Lynne was nearby and not being a wine drinker, she asked ‘what was the likely value of the wine consumed?’, to which he replied, ‘Using an $18 average bottle cost, about $3000! But it was more than a year’s worth!’ he pleaded.
Lynne just smiled and, as she walked away, said there was a lot more wool coming.

But having done this weighing, and looking at the money raised above, he thinks the club collected close to 50,000 tops and even if we were to use a cost of $15 per bottle consumed, that’s $750,000 of wine drunk by the club, friends and neighbours.

One final point

Those neck labels on wine bottles will aluminium tops are 1.3 times heavier than the tops, so are well worth collecting. Just be very careful and work away from yourself as you attempt to remove one from the bottle.

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