Membership Survey 2015

Ocean Isle Beach Chapter

COMMENTS

***Suggestions: Name tags - printed once for members, left in box, member picks up at the beginning of meeting and returns to box at end. Visitor will have a "sticky" name tag. Stan, you often talk to your left side of the room when presenting information. You have your back to your right side of the room. Just an observation.

***Good, often extremely well. I have been introduced to wines I never would have thought to taste. For example, Kosher wines.

***Stan and Tess do an amazing job!

***Stan, you and Tess have developed a first-rate Chapter. Thank you! The acoustics in the meeting room are awful. Could we look into getting a mic? Or, reconfigure the tables so that the speaker is always facing the audience (?)

***We have been well educated in wines since we started attending the meetings.

***Might be able to cut back to nine if there were no August meeting.

***Either current schedule or 8 per yr (eliminate another summer month and a big holiday month)

COMMENTS

Some are outstanding, others only good. But, I've learned to like some types of wines I previously had avoided.

We appreciate the diversity of the wines and the variety of themes.

Given the $$$ constraint, the wine selections have been great.

All of the wines tasted so far have been outstanding. Very few are disliked, but that is expected.

The selection of wines have always been outstanding.

COMMENTS

In our opinion a larger group would not add any value.

I prefer to keep our meetings at the current size. I think larger meetings would become unwieldy and somewhat impersonal. Perhaps we should limit attendance to members who respond and pay within a certain time period before we allow guests. However, I realize that we may have more members than we can accommodate if we keep attendance at 40ish. Therefore, I would support buying more wine if absolutely necessary. (I'm not comfortable with the fact that people could pay to be AWS members and get closed out of meetings.)

Pay at the door.

Direct bank transfer (?) Bank of America (and probably most of the other big online banking services) allow funds to be transferred in a variety of ways including by email.

Like the current cash system prior to or at the time of the event

COMMENTS

I think Stan does a great job of providing a variety of great wines. I would prefer to repeat varieties from well known places (e.g. Italy, California), rather than stretching with wines from less successful regions like southern states.

I like them all!!!

= WINO! [from someone who, like 70% of the other respondents, chose the Will Rogers response: “I’ve never met a wine

that I didn’t like (or at least drink)” ]

MAXIMUM Cost pp for Wine Dinner

Total responses =19

2 $40/pp

9 $50/pp

3 $60/pp

5 $75/pp

1 “open”

Several commented that the cost should parallel the quality of the wines/food

Virginia, Australia with ostrich and kangaroo, Argentinian or Australian with lamb. There are several area chefs who could be hired to prepare or hire a club house. Maybe, First Tee facility..has great kitchen.

Vertical tasting = 2 responses

Focus on more regional wines. There are many good wines available in various states. Encourage members to suggest these wines for tasting.

Washington State, summer wines.NC = 2 wines of north carolina

I would be glad to do a taste sometime in the future. We have been to France several times and know Bordeaux well enough to do a knowledgeable taste.

German/Austrian White Wines

May have already been done but tight region tastings ie Russian River, areas of Canada (if they even make wine)

Tasting of the same varietal from different regions

another region in Italy - ie Veneto or Puglia or Piedmonte

Rotate the responsibility among members

Food

Providing Food Pairings for the Wine Tastings

All members sign up for rotating teams. I don't think people realize how much work Stan and Tess do.

I love the Food Pairings. I suggest we rotate this task via a signup sheet. If members take responsibility for one item, we would probably be responsible only a few times a year. (I prefer this over hors d'oeuvres at Meet and Greet.)

Would be interested in helping with the hors d'oeuvre and serving when needed.