{"id":25,"date":"2015-11-05T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T20:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T11:42:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What are we all about?<\/h1>\n<p>The Chalfont and Amersham Wine Club (formerly the Amersham Wine Appreciation Society) has been running since 1992. The club meets on the first Tuesday of every month in Little Chalfont Village Hall, Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9QA.\u00a0 The meetings now start at 8pm, aiming to finish around 10.30pm.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2474.6263017705232!2d-0.5678150067762878!3d51.66667809439572!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x4876680983b67e51%3A0xa7fe515cae8acc74!2sLittle+Chalfont+Village+Hall!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1447776899881\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Each month a presenter, usually a wine merchant, winemaker or other wine expert, is invited to host a tasting of wines selected by them, usually on a specific theme. The Club tries to cover all areas of the wine-making world as it is geared towards &#8220;appreciation&#8221; of all wines rather than focusing simply on fine wine.<\/p>\n<p>After a period of sustained growth, the Club now has a membership of about 130 and an average attendance of around 50.\u00a0 It is large enough to flourish, but small enough to maintain a friendly and informal atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>No prior knowledge or experience of wine is needed to come along to the club.\u00a0 If you enjoy drinking wine and want to meet like-minded people then this is the club for you.<\/p>\n<p>The club plans well ahead and will typically have tastings planned for the forthcoming six months at least.<\/p>\n<p>The evenings cost \u00a322 per head for a tasting with cheese served half way through. New members to the club are welcome to join us for two trial meetings, after which they are charged a one-off membership fee of \u00a310.\u00a0 For new members who have already tried the club as a guest, this \u00a310 fee is charged immediately since the trial meetings are not required.<\/p>\n<p>At each tasting members vote for their favourite wine of the evening &#8211; the Wine of the Month.\u00a0 At the April meeting, which is also the Club&#8217;s AGM, the previous year&#8217;s Wines of the Month are tasted against each other.\u00a0 The winning wine is then the Club&#8217;s Wine of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Club also periodically arranges other special tasting events and trips.<\/p>\n<p>The Club has also organised several wine-tasting trips abroad.\u00a0 So far these have been to Tuscany in Italy, Ribera del Duero in Spain, the Languedoc in France and Piemonte in Italy.\u00a0 These have proved to be great fun and very educational.\u00a0 They are quite hard work but well worth the effort to enjoy a wide range of wines, presented at the vineyards with meals and a real taste of the region from where the wines originate.\u00a0 Further trips will be organised if there is sufficient support from Club members.<\/p>\n<h3>Club constitution<\/h3>\n<p>To see a copy of the Club&#8217;s constitution, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/?page_id=86\"><strong>click here<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are we all about? The Chalfont and Amersham Wine Club (formerly the Amersham Wine Appreciation Society) has been running since 1992. The club meets on the first Tuesday of every month in Little Chalfont Village Hall, Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, HP7 9QA.\u00a0 The meetings now start at 8pm, aiming to finish around 10.30pm.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/?page_id=25\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chalfamwineclub.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}