8 February 2022: "Vertical Whisky Tasting"

Happy New Year! Tickets are now available on Eventbrite for the first tasting of 2022!

Please join me on February 8th, for a "Vertical Whisky Tasting" from a single distillery. We will explore five whisky offerings from the same Scotch Distillery to see what differences we can find between different ages, different cask maturations, and different techniques from the same whisky makers. The distillery is well-known, well-respected, and makes fantastic whisky!

You will notice a few changes to our programme in 2022. First, we will stick with the smaller group size (38 people maximum). Part of this is due to ongoing governmental health recommendations, and part is do to with the whisky tasting experience: when we did trial larger group sizes, the area was more crowded, louder, and doubled the workload on crew. While I certainly appreciate how keen people are to attend the tastings, we will stick with the smaller group size for 2022.

The tastings will continue to fall on the Second Tuesday of every month for 2022 (mark your calendars now!), with the e-mailed request for RSVPs coming out at noon two weeks prior to the tasting.

It's time to renew your Memberships for the Bowling Club for 2022. For social membership, family subscriptions are $100, and individuals are $50. Subscriptions help fund many of the activities of the club, and help to keep the club moving forward. Members receive the Whisky RSVP e-mail 48 hours before the regular announcement is e-mailed out, and will have first chance to book a seat for the whisky tastings. Details about payments are below.

We are raising the price of whisky tastings to $50 per person, per tasting. As we have talked about through the COVID Pandemic, availability and selection of whiskies has gone down, and cost for whisky has risen. I want to continue to try to source interesting and wonderful whiskies for our tastings, and with the aforementioned pressure on the whisky market as well as available stock, we have to raise the price to compensate. I hope you will understand that we have kept the prices as low as possible for as long as we could, but we do have to bump them up for future tastings.

Please note that for entry for this event we will need to sight your ''My Vaccine Pass" .

Membership

Seatoun Clubhouse appreciates the support of everyone who pays their membership fees and by paying you are contributing to the successful future of this valuable community asset.

Membership subscription options for the year 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022 are below:

• Family social membership (2 adults + children ) $100

• Individual social membership $50

• Competitive Bowling Membership: $125

Payment of fees can be made to:

• Seatoun Bowling Club Inc bank account:

• Westpac 03 0521 0101368 00

When paying your fees please include your last name(s) and first name(s) as the reference plus SUBS2022.

For anyone that hasn't updated their membership details during 2021, please do so here. This will make it easier to track any membership payments.