Sin is geographical. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
Up at 8:00 am to see if any of our guests had survived the night! Unfortunately, both had so we needed to cook extra bacon and eggs!
Patrick James Dunn You are famous in all our tummies, Vincenzzo! Wine tasting at Poplar Grove with Flamin'/Sarge, Jo-anne, Lady Dar and Christy/Dan, a couple, from Peachland, we met at winery while sipping. Jana was pouring and she lives on Braid, one street over from us! Visited two wineries, (most are closed over winter), Upper Bench was first. F/S became wine club members at both, while we joined PG, already signed up with UB! We will collect the shipments, much like you and Janferie, with respect to Coffaro muleage!
Fellow Shareholders
Our investment has been maturing nicely at the Distillery and we
are now only ten months away from the 5th anniversary of when our cask
was initially put in the oak barrels. So we can look forward to having
it bottled in December. I've recently been in touch with
Patrick Evans, our distiller and he asked me to share the following information with you:
1. In early March he will draw a final sample from our cask and
send it to me for our group to sample. I will advise you once I receive
it.
2.a heavier style of clear bottle has been selected to bottle the
whiskey and this should reflect the colour very well. As previously
agreed we will have our cask bottled at cask strength of 62% thus
reducing some of applicable provincial markup.
3. We will need to send them a design of any label we want. They
sent us a copy of the label used by another cask group.See attached. If
we like it we could adopt it and make changes as desired thus reducing
our costs for artwork. I've asked them for approximate
costs for labels. One possibility would be to reflect the SOWTS logo
since so many of us are members. Let me have your feedback on the
sample.
4.In response to my request Patrick advised that the remaining
duty, fees and taxes which will be owing on our cask are estimated to
total $ 17.37 per bottle on the estimated 226 bottles for a total of $
3,925.62 plus GST.To this we need to add the costs
for labeling and shipping however as we get closer to the date Patrick
may be willing to deliver our order personally. Our original estimate
that a final payment would be due of $ 250 per 5% share appears to be a
bit high but won't be known for sure until
the early fall. I believe we'll know the actual amount in mid October
and so please plan on paying your remaining share by November 1st.
I maintain a Shareholder Registry for our group reflecting the
names, addresses, phone and emails of all owners (individual or joint).
Since we formed our group I've only been made aware of one change where a
5% ownership share was transferred to a pair
of new co owners. If you have sold or transferred your ownership let me
know. To ensure your contact information is accurate please advise me
of any changes in your personal contact information especially email. Let me know if you have any questions. Slainte! Kevin Ritcey
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the update. The excitement for our whisky release is palpable. Could you please add Patrick to the distributionlist as my co-shareholder. Slainte, Peter Please ignore previous e-mail. I see Patrick is on the list. Peter
Hi everybody: It is Summerland's turn. We meet at 09:00 at the IGA, the southerners may want to car pool at 08:40 from HH. The plan is to drive N on Hwy 97, 1 km short of the Antler Beach (A
pull-off at the N end of Brent Rd.) and head straight W as far up as
the time and energy supply allow.
3 hrs max, followed by a coffee at GO. Al
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