“President’s Garden Reception”

August 2009

Date: Sunday August 30, 2009                                 

Time: 2:00P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Event: President’s Garden Reception                           

Location: 101 Bayview Ridge, Toronto ON

Tel: (416) 385-9650

Toronto, ON M2L 1E3, Canada

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Contact: Debbie Smith for reservations

Additional Information: http://www.iwfstoronto.org/Sunday,_August_26,_2007.html

Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly

A successful President’s Garden Reception was the first event of the IW&FS year.  Our President as usual outdid herself in charm and true Canadian hospitality.  The weather even coopered and the rain held off.  A fine mix of guests and members turned up for this event and some new members originally from Edmonton joined in.

A splendiferous array of hovering hors d’oeuvres were presented with a vast selection of one off bottles of wine from the IW&FS Cellar.  A fine time of was had by all.  I thought the warmed fresh figs delicately wrapped in exquisite Prosciutto was the winner, but then, I have editorial power.

The Sommelier Award of the year was presented to Sarah Goddard, a simply charming serious young lady, who has give up a successful teaching career to

become this year's top graduate in the Sommelier Qualifying Course at the The Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers (CAPS).  The awards were given by Bill Whiteacre, as President of The International Wine and Food Foundation of Canada, who presented Sarah with a framed Scholarship Certificate and the Foundation's medal.  Doug Colbourne, as Treasurers of The International Wine and Food Foundation of Canada, presented Sarah with the Foundation's Scholarship Cheque.

R. Henderson

The event is captured is the photographic essay that follows...