[GeekDinner-planning] Wine tasting

[Johann Botha]

Hi Jonathan                                   >@2007.06.13_12:18:45_GMT+0200

> I mailed the Pieter dude and told him the format that we've been using
> for the GeekDinners, and asked him what his format was going to be.
> 
> His response is below (and my original mail quoted below that).
> 
> So, it seems that if we're going to have him do his tasting, we have to
> sacrifice people having the talks?  It becomes less a GeekDinner, and
> more a bunch of GeekDinner attendees having a wine tasting.
> 
> I don't know what the rest of you think, but I would like to stick to
> the original format for at least a few more dinners - then we can start
> changing if people want to.  It's too early to change the format
> suddenly, sort of thing.
> Or, we can have GeekDinner be a GeekDinner, with people giving talks,
> and branch out and have other events at other times - the wine tasting
> sounds great, but we could do it separately, at a different time.
> 
> (Also, I did promise the GetWine guys that we would let them know when
> the next GeekDinner is, and they're keen to give a talk, and it'll be a
> bit ungrateful if we just ignore them now?)
> 
> Any thoughts?

I think we should try and get Pieter to sponsor 20 bottles of wine and do a
20 min tasting at the beginning of the dinner.

I don't see any other way to do this. We can't taste for 40min and we don't
just want to taste the wine, we want to drink it.

I'll email him.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: GeekDinner July <urgent>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:23:03 +0200
> From: Pieter du Toit <pieter at cederbergwine.com>
> To: Jonathan Hitchcock <jonathan.hitchcock at gmail.com>
> 
> Jonathan,
> 
> I think when Johann visited the farm, he saw the opportunity - which is
> good. Let me explain how we do it and why?
> 
> Many of our wines our sold out, we are not in the position to give away
> wines any more, or just sponcer for the sake of the cause, which I am
> sure you'll understand from a business point. So, if we see a nice group
> of people in one room together, we will offer them a tasting, no charge!
> There is no way that I can do a quickie and present three or four wines,
> it has to be five to seven wines - to give you a good idea of who we are
> and to bring accross the message of our winery. We always start the
> tasting with an intro, this can be 5 - 60 minute - all depends. BUT the
> minute the tasting starts, you look at a min five minutes per wine...
> 
> So let us say: 5 wines x 7 minutes (incl pouring and tasting and a short
> discussion) + the intro, we are looking at 40 minutes minimum - but it
> will be more.We normally ask that we kick of with the tasting because
> once you start drinking mixers and other alchohols you interfere with
> your tasting abilities. Snacks and strong dishes also interfere. Not if
> the wines were chosen to go with certain food, a paring the chef and
> wine person will do before hand.
> 
> So Jonathan, with all of this in our pipes, how do we smoke it? I am
> very relaxed about this. It is what I do for a living. We have no
> problem if it does not fit into your plans at this stage. BUT I do
> suggest that we discuss this and may be that one evening we do a decent
> wine tasting, a wine and food evening, and I'll help you choose a venue.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Pieter
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Hitchcock" <jonathan.hitchcock at gmail.com>
> To: "Pieter du Toit" <pieter at cederbergwine.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:21 AM
> Subject: Re: GeekDinner July <urgent>
> 
> 
> > Hi Pieter,
> >
> > I'm not sure if you know the format of the GeekDinners.  We normally
> > start off with a few drinks and socializing, and then take our places at
> > the tables.  We order our food from the waiters, and then have about two
> > short talks.  The food is then brought out, and we eat, and we have
> > another two or three talks, and then dessert, after which we open up the
> > floor for anybody else who wants to talk.
> >
> > The talks are about five minutes long, with three minutes of questions.
> > This keeps people from boring everybody with twenty minutes of talking
> > about microchips, or something, and means we get a good overview of the
> > topic.
> >
> > What is your planned format?  I mean, how will your tasting fit in with
> > the dinner?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Cheers,
> > -Jonathan
> 

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