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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

10:00 AM, Saturday Sept. 6, 2008

at the Inman/Buehner Home

SAVE THIS DATE! 6:15 PM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER  13, 2008

’97 CALIFORNIA MAGNUM CABERNET TASTING (BLACK TIE OPTIONAL)

Wine Room, Embassy Suites Hotel, 319 SW Pine Street, Portland

Every once in a while we have wines important enough for a Black Tie Optional Event. Downtown Embassy Suites Food and Beverage Director Kaspar Maurer, Catering Manager Kara Swadley, Executive Chef Kevin Graham, and Sous Chef Glen Nichols are working to pull out all stops for this wonderful event.  The 1997 vintage is generally regarded as the best vintage of the 1990’s in California and possibly beyond. We are fortunate to be able to taste five of the best Cabs and two of the best Sangioveses in one sitting.  Here’s the early “Conceptual” Menu. 

Fresh Oysters                        ‘97 Louis Roederer Vintage Brut Champagne

                                                (Now about $245 per bottle and up in restaurants) 

Starter Course                     Cakebread Cellars Chardonnay 

Fowl Course                       ‘97 Rutherford Hill Twenty Third Anniversary Bottling 

(w/starch or veg) and       ’97 Silverado Vineyards en Magnums 

Red Meat Course                ’97 Silver Oak Alexander Valley and ’97 Ch. Montelena

  (w/starch and veg)              en Magnums 

Cheese Course                    ’97 Caymus Special Select en Magnum

  (hearty)                                 (Now $359 per single bottle at WineAccess.com) 

Chocolate Dessert               ’97 Viansa Piccolo and ’97 Viansa Thalia en Magnums

                                                (These two are big, heavy Italian style Sangioveses) 

The magnums are all in perfect condition, with high fill levels, and have been stored in perfect conditions since their releases.  This will be another great Society bargain.   BETTER YET, SIGN UP NOW! 

Cost: $150.00/Members and $175.00/Non-Members. 

Limit: 20.

WFSO LOGO ATTIRE 

WFSO members wishing to order clothing with the WFSO logo on them may do so by contacting WFSO member, Steve Lutz at his email: steve@lutzandco.com.  You can preview clothing items available at www.companycasuals.com .

For those of you hosting an event, please be aware that new Reimbursement forms are available.   The forms are available in either an Excel or PDF format.  The Excel version will allow the user to enter costs into a form, and will calculate all totals automatically.  For those without access to Excel, the PDF version can be printed and then filled in manually.  

All reimbursement forms and accompanying receipts should be forwarded to the attention of Cami Bunnell / WFSO Treasurer, 13025 SW Broadmoor Place, Tigard, OR 97223.   For any questions about the forms or reimbursement procedures, you can e-mail Cami at camib@msn.com, or call 503-579-2997. 

The forms can be accessed at the top of the Schedule of Current Events.  Go There

Read the Winemaster emeritus' latest column: Read

Don Dibbern is now writing a monthly column for WineLoversPage.com.  A link to his column has been added to our links page (above).  Go There

   IMPORTANT NOTICE:  PLEASE READ

Cost Saving Changes

Dear WFSO Members: 

To help control costs, the Board of Directors decided that the WFSO would no longer employ a professional secretary effective May 1, 2006. The duties previously performed by the secretary have been divided among current Board Members. 

Reservations: To make reservations for an event, please contact:

 Jack Inman, Event Coordinator, 13249 SW 136^th Place, Tigard, OR  97223, (503) 590-6844 or

                   Email to Reservations@wfso.net   (preferred method) 

                    Full Reservation Process: View

New Member Applications: Send new member applications to:

Bill Kimmer, Membership Chair, 13044 SW Broadmoor Place, Tigard, OR  97223, (503) 524-5951.

                   Email:  billkimmer@kimmer.org 

We are currently working on a web based reservation system, which we expect to have operational in the next month or so. 

Should you have any questions, concerns or suggestions, please feel free to contact me. 

Bill Kimmer, President, (503) 524-5951

WFSO PHOTO ALBUM 

If anyone has any pictures of people, wines or food from any of our events that they would like to share via the album, please send them to Avon Holmes @ 9345 NW Kaiser Road, Portland, OR  97231. 

Photos should list the event, the date, name of people, etc.  All photos will be scanned and then returned to the owner.  Digital photos are also welcome – they can be sent to jfred@easystreet.com.

* * * IMPORTANT * * *

Don’t forget, when you change e-mail addresses you need to update our list – some of the addresses we have in the roster are already invalid due to changes in ISPs.