WIDOWS, ORPHANS, AND DOGS PARTY

We have just the ticket for the cold blasts of January.  Don’t fight it, enjoy it in rural, rustic, Reston, Virginia.  What?  Rural? Rustic?  The Town Center?  All those high tech high rises?  Ah, but tucked away in the city is a great park with a cabin that is perfect for a rustic retreat in the middle of our urban universe.  New York’s Central Park has the Tavern on the Green.  Reston’s park has something else.
Set in the woods, the rustic log cabin of the Fairfax Hunt Club is a great place to relax in front of roaring fires, enjoy good wines, food, and friends while listening to some of your favorite tunes on CD.  Haapala, do not bring your operas!

What about the Widows, Orphans, and Dogs?  The Widows and Orphans are fine wines left over from our formal dinners that are ready to drink, but we have only one or two bottles, not sufficient for another dinner.  The Dogs are what you bring.  Each couple, or individual, is required to bring one:  that bottle of wine in the cellar you do not care to open because you may not like it; or that wine in the shop you have been hesitant to try.  In addition, thanks to Supreme Knight Murchie we will have wines that were submitted for Virginia wine competitions years ago.  Some may be good, some not, but it will be interesting to see how they have aged.

Also, all are requested to bring a dish (other than their sweetie). Heavy hors d’ovueres or other for everyone to enjoy and a few of their favorite tunes on CD. We have the place, a great place, and some fine wines, you provide food, some wine and, above all, yourselves for all to enjoy.  The cost is  $30 per person.  Guests are invited at the same price (in reasonable quantity) – but remind them they also must bring food and wine. This the NFL bye weekend before the Super Bowl so there are no games to miss.

Directions From the Dulles Toll Road:

1. Take Hunter Mill Road (674) North to Baron Cameron (Route 606).
2. Go left (west) on Baron Cameron to the first left on Lake Fairfax Drive.
3. Drive about one-half mile, going almost to Lake Fairfax Park.
4. A rustic building is on the right (through a country fence).
5. 1321 Lake Fairfax Drive
   

Directions From the Leesburg Pike:

1. Go west on Baron Cameron (Route 606) past Hunter Mill to a left on Lake Fairfax Drive.
2. Drive about one-half mile, going almost to Lake Fairfax Park.
3. A rustic building is on the right (through a country fence).
4. 1321 Lake Fairfax Drive

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE

Blood flows Red and so does wine, Will you be my Valentine? Bubbles and mousse, There's no excuse, Libations will be divine, So will you join us in Walt's last salute' To the specter of St. Valentine.

Be there or we may need to send out some muscle to bring you in.  The cost is $60 per person for each member and first guest; $70 per person for additional guests.

EDUCATIONAL WINE TASTING

OTHER NEWS

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER:  Our members at State College, PA, Jo and Tom Chesworth, are forming a Central Pennsylvania chapter. National has asked me to assist in helping form the chapter and help organize the induction ceremony.  Others may wish to participate as well.  As soon as we have some details, I’ll pass them on.