Wangaratta Food & Wine Society

Wangaratta Food & Wine Society Wangaratta Food & WineSociety is a membership-based organisation that holds monthly dinner meetings, with blind tastings of wine matched to food.

Wangaratta Food & Wine Society is a membership-based club of wine and food afficionados. The Society has a diverse membership comprising grape growers, wine makers, sommeliers, restaurateurs, publicans, chefs, farmers, producers and professionals - serious foodies from all walks of life! The Wangaratta Food & Wine Society has an extensive cellar of wines, carefully curated by our joint Cellar Masters Paul and Rob. The Society holds monthly dinner meetings featuring blind tastings of wines - some purchased, some selected from our cellar - matched to 3-5 courses. Each dinner is hosted by a member of the Society and held in a local restaurant or private home. Members are encouraged to invite guests to attend dinner meetings. New members may join the Society after attending as a Guest. The Society is led by small Executive, appointed at the AGM each year.

2021 WFWS Executive

President : Fred Pizzini
Vice President : Melissa Jacka
Secretary : Ian Jarvie
Treasurer : James Nicholson
Cellar Masters : Paul Judd & Robert Meares

It would seem that the cellar masters have been made an offer they cannot refuse! Perhaps a visit from the "Family"In an...
26/08/2026

It would seem that the cellar masters have been made an offer they cannot refuse! Perhaps a visit from the "Family"
In any case they have topped up the cellar with 4 fantastic delights from Italy.
Whites
- Pio Cesare Gavi DOCG 2024 @ 3 @ $50. The grape variety is Cortese. Gavi is a small village / locale in the Barolo / Barbaresco areas in Piedmont.
- Vigneti Massa Derthona Timorasso 2023 @ 6 @ $70. The grape variety is Timorasso. It comes from another small village called Monleale, which is to the E of Piedmont (almost in Lombardy).
- Colle Corviano Pecorino d’Abruzzo DOC 2025 @ 3 @ $44. The grape is Pecorino, sorry if that is obvious. From the village of Loreto Aprutino in Abruzzo.

Red
- Cantina Zaccagnini Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Tralcetto Riserva DOC 2021 @ 3 @ $45. Again the grape is Montepulciano (apologies again of obvious). The village is Bolognano in Abruzzo.

If anybody is interested in finding out more abot our Food & Wine Club please reach out with a message. Thx Rob

22/07/2026

A new home for the wines

Just an update on the cellar. It has moved into its new home under the floor of Holloway Vision’s retail display area!Wi...
22/07/2026

Just an update on the cellar.
It has moved into its new home under the floor of Holloway Vision’s retail display area!
With the newly purchased wine racks we now have areas for Aust & Overseas reds and whites as well as sparkling and dessert wines
Many thanks to those who helped with the move and sorting of the wines.
Those who need access please call me direct and we will descend into the depths 😊

Our June Wine & Food dinner was held at Watermarc Dining Wangaratta and was hosted by Geoff and Ian. Jarv’s was channel...
29/06/2026

Our June Wine & Food dinner was held at Watermarc Dining Wangaratta and was hosted by Geoff and Ian. Jarv’s was channelling his recent holiday (research trip) to France and decided to set the attendees a challenge to blend our own Bordeaux blends
Nibbles on arrival were accompanied by a Champagne from the club’s cellar

NV Champagne Larmandier-Bernier Latitude Blanc de Blanc

Entrée was char grilled octopus with peeled baby tomatoes and cauliflower puree. The char grill was perfectly done and complemented the acid from the tomatoes.

Accompanying this was:
2024 Bird In Hand Winery Sauvignon Blanc (Adelaide Hills)
2024 Brokenwood Wines Semillon (Hunter Valley)
These were first tasted independently and then we were challenged to produce a blend. The popular consensus was that 60/40 Semillon – Sauvignon mix was ideal.

For main course the hosts had sourced 4 reds that are the building blocks of Bordeaux blends. All were from the 2021 vintage at Leconfield Coonawarra.

The dish was a delicious pressed lamb shoulder accompanied by lentils, carrots, blackberries and a sweet potato smear. The contrast in flavours was wonderful.

Our wines were:
2021 Leconfield Petit Verdot
2021 Leconfield Merlot
2021 Leconfield Cabernet Sauvignon
2022 Leconfield Cabernet Franc
Once again, after tasting independently, we were invited to produce our own “Bordeaux blend” These creations all varied and will never be replicated but it was a fascinating insight into the craft of blending varietals into something else.

Desert was a simple house made focaccia with gorgonzola cheese drizzled with honey. This combination of flavours was a lvely end to the dinner and was accompanied by a cellar Sauterne

2009 Château Guiraud Sauterne (1st Grand Cru Class)

Thanks to everyone who attended and a special thanks to Jarv’s who raided his personal cellar for the Leconfield wines.
No dinner in July as we will be huddled infront of the fires for winter and we will see you all in August.
If anyone is interested in finding out more about the Wangaratta W&F Society reach out with the DM’s and we will be in touch.

26/05/2026

Our wonderful May wine and food dinner at the King River Cafe

Our April club dinner meeting was held at Nomi Restaurant under the watchful eye of Brett McLenn. This was our first di...
22/04/2026

Our April club dinner meeting was held at Nomi Restaurant under the watchful eye of Brett McLenn. This was our first dinner at Nomi and we were excited to savour their fare.

A fantastic dinner was curated by Brett with the theme of “A” for April! This was applied a variety of ways to the wine choices which caused far too much lateral thinking for our guests.

The links are as follows:
Petaluma Wine Adelaide Hills
Famille Hugel Alsace
Weingut Bernhard Ott Austria
Tiefenbrunner Alto Adige (Italy)
Shaw + Smith Adelaide Hills
Weingut Pittnauer Austria
Catena Zapata Argentina

The Taste d’Vin was awarded to Vicki for her wonderful contributions as well as the suggestion that our favourite German supermarket Aldi may have been involved.
Thanks to all involved and see you next month.

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Wangaratta, VIC
3677

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